This book seeks to simultaneously teach MATLAB as a technical programming language and also to introduce the student to many of the practical functions that make solving problems in MATLAB so much easier than in other languages. The book provides a complete introduction to the fundamentals of good procedural programming, developing good design habits that will serve a student well in any other language that he or she may pick up later. There is a very strong emphasis on proper program design and structure. A standard program des ign process is introduced at the beginning of Chapter 4 and then followed regularly throughout the remainder of the text ign process is introduced at the beginning of Chapter 4 and then followed regularly throughout the remainder of the text