The purpose of this document is to give a medium-length introduction to the essentials of

MATLAB and how to use it well. I’m aiming for a document that’s somewhere between a two-

page introduction for a numerical methods course and the excellent but longer Getting Started and

other user guides found in the online docs. I use it in a week-long “boot camp” for graduate

students at the University of Delaware in the summer after their fi rst year of study.