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Come see "Paint Wars" at CodeMash!

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Fellow SRT employee Chris Marinos will be showing off his wii-mote controlled " Paint Wars "

Come see "Paint Wars" at CodeMash!

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Fellow SRT employee Chris Marinos will be showing off his wii-mote controlled " Paint Wars "

Design Optimization - Part 2

Anne Marsan: Software for Engineers — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:07:36 GMT

Awhile back I wrote part 1 of a series on design optimization. At long last here is Part 2. As a quick

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re: On Bad Matlab

amarsan — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:50:17 GMT

Bob,

I feel like engineers (and programmers for that matter) would be more likely to use functions if it is easy to remember the function's name and how to call it. Intellisense really helps with this.

As for global variables, I think in many cases they are used just because the person writing the code wants to avoid having a long list of arguments to a function, especially if it's an inexperienced programmer who isn't familiar with structures (when I was in engineering school we learned Fortran 77, which doesn't have structures, and many of my cohort seem to be unaware of them in Matlab or unsure of how they work). Because Intellisense takes the burden of keeping track of lots of arguments to a function off the programmer, it might encourage programmers to break their code up into functions.

Anne

re: Euler Problem #14

amarsan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:24:45 GMT

I don't reveal answers - you have to solve the Euler problem yourself ;).

re: On Bad Matlab

Bob — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:50:51 GMT

Ann, interesting post but I missed something. How would intellisense teach engineers to use functions instead of scripts and global variables?

Cheers

Bob

re: Euler Problem #14

Don Smith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:31:05 GMT

Well, What is the answer?

"Which starting number, under one million, produces the longest chain?"

re: On Bad Matlab

Steven Bak — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:12:18 GMT

Hi, we actually have met before at codemash!

I am friends with Jay. I have spent the last two months working on a project that everything is done in Matlab, even if there is another language that would be better suited for the task. I can attest that intellisense is a much needed feature.

Also, I would love to met up with you at lightning talks and pick your brain on some issues I have been having with Matlab ;)

Keep blogging about Matlab!

re: On Bad Matlab

Scott Hirsch — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:21:53 GMT

I forgot to mention in my last post - your last request has already been addressed (as of R2007B). Just hit F1 when your cursor is at the name of a function, and a mini help window pops up. You can also right-click and choose "Help on selection" from the context menu.

Cheers!

- scott

re: On Bad Matlab

Scott Hirsch — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:07:16 GMT

Thanks for a very thoughtful post on MATLAB usage. This is something we think about quite a bit at The MathWorks - how to get "engineers" to behave a bit more like "programmers" without even knowing that they are doing so. Keep your eyes peeled for some interesting (relevant) features in our upcoming release (R2008b). The pre-release should go live any day now, available to anybody with an in-maintenance MATLAB license.

re: Euler Problem #11

amarsan — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:11:23 GMT

I have a Mac 12" 867 MHz PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11.

re: Euler Problem #11

JRM — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:02:02 GMT

What Mac are you using?