Computer Programming Basics

Fall 2010

Last year's schedule

Meets Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00 in Room 1411

Aronne Merrelli (merrelli at wisc)

John Rausch (rausch2 at wisc)

October 6 (Aronne)	Introduction
October 13 (Aronne)	MATLAB 1
October 20 (Aronne)	MATLAB 2
October 27 (Aronne)	MATLAB 3
November 3 (Aronne)	MATLAB wrapup - finishing session 3
November 10	Meeting canceled
November 17 (Aronne)	File input and output in MATLAB; Quick IDL review (material from last year linked below: IDL session 1, IDL session 2

Introduction

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MATLAB 1

slides

Example scripts:

• simple_example_script.m
• function_handle_example.m
• array_creation_examples.m

MATLAB 2

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• array_creation_examples.m
• example_function.m
• example_for_profiler.m
• example_data.mat

MATLAB 3

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• example_display_data.mat
• oneD_display_examples.m
• HTML Published oneD_display_examples
• LaTeX/PDF Published oneD_display_examples
• twoD_display_examples.m
• HTML Published twoD_display_examples
• LaTeX/PDF Published twoD_display_examples
• subtract_mean.m

functionAB.m

Additional material on debugger:

• matlab_debug_examples.pdf
• debug_example.m
• unit_scale_data.m
• unit_scale_data_catch.m

MATLAB 4

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Example text file reader:

read_sounding_file.m

Example data files:

• KGRB.txt
• KGRB_simple.txt
• hgt.mon.inter.std.nc
• rhum.mon.ltm.nc
• h2o.h5
• netcdf_getvar.m
• netcdf_listvars.m

IDL 1

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Example code: temp_example.pro

Equivalent MATLAB commands: matlabvsidl.pdf

IDL 2

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Example code: sounding.pro

Example data: KGRB.txt

legend.pro