Mastering MATLAB 6

Author: Duane Hanselman, Bruce R. Littlefield
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ISBN: 0130194689
Publisher: Prentice Hall (14 December, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 14,079
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 out of 5

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Rating: 5 out of 5
Good book for control engineers.
Matlab is a powerful simulation tool for control engineers. This is a good book for enough practical examples and easy read. This book gives enough background for any simulations in control engineering. For implementation with microchip "PowerPC Programming Handbook" is the only other book you need. Having minimum necessary theoretical background and these books, you can make any electro mechanical systems work.


Rating: 5 out of 5
The best Matlab book available.
Version 6 of Matlab is improved in graphic use interface and efficiency of computation as well as compatibility with other languages like C++. "Mastering MATLAB 6" is the best choice of book on Matlab for its detailed coverage on graphics and interface with other programming languages. Only weakness of Matlab is its capability of analytical computation, and it is preferred to use Maple for analytical calculation. The most respected programming book on Maple is "Maple Programming Guide". "Mastering MATLAB 6" and "Maple Programming Guide" are the investment which you will not regret.


Rating: 3 out of 5
Skip for GUI help
The book is terrible for explaining GUIs, and the authors are shamelessly unapologetic about it:(p. 513) "It's difficult to illustrate GUI programming with examples because GUI-M files are very long and [...] difficult to illustrate." In other words, the authors found it too much work to actually be helpful, and their suggestion is just to randomly hunt for GUI code and figure it out. The rest of the book, however, is as good as the online documentation, sometimes better . . .

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