Basic info

The main goal of the course is to provide students information on the software and information resources available at the university. Students will learn to work with online databases and scientific resources available at the faculty, such as the IEEE standards and papers databases. Furthermore by means of practical hands-on laboratory exercises students obtain basic skill by working with the MATLAB platform and writing equations using LaTeX.

Slovak version

• Lectures and labs: Ing. Tomáš Páleník, PhD. 

• mail AIS: tomas.palenik@is.stuba.sk 

• mail: tomas.palenik@stuba.sk, 

• Lectures: Tuesday 13:00 - 15:40,  BC-150

• Labs: Thursday 12:00 - 12:50, 15:00 - 15:50, 16:00 - 16:50, B-614

• Consultations: as needed online: https://meet.google.com/wxt-ydnn-xio 

• The final course grade will be derived from scoring as follows:

  • Lab exercises: 60b

  • Final project: 40b

• Detailed course syllabi & rules.

Lecture syllabus

1. Software and resources provided by the STU. The IEEE database. Course arrangement info.

2. Introduction to MATLAB. Variables & operators. MATLAB as a calculator.

Further resources:

1.  Getting started with MATLAB

2. MATLAB Tutorial

3, MATLAB Basic Functions Reference

3. MATLAB: Vectors & matrices. Basic commands. Various indexing modes.

4. MATLAB: Vectors & matrices. Various matrix products. Functions.

5. MATLAB: Logical indexing.

6. MATLAB: Program flow.

7. MATLAB: Graphs and polynomials.

8. MATLAB: Symbolic toolbox. 

9. MATLAB: Random variables and linear regression.

10. MATLAB: Rekursion, debugging and profiling.

11. Alternative platforms. Live scripts. Writing LaTeX equations.

12. MATLAB: Consulting the FINAL project.

Lab syllabus - watch for updates

1. Course arrangement info. AIS functionality.

Assignment #1: File formats & conversions.

2. MATLAB as a calculator.

Assignment #1: Submission.

3. MATLAB - vectors & matrices #1.

4. MATLAB - vectors & matrices #2.

Assignment #2: Vectors & matrices.

5. MATLAB - vectors & matrices - consulting problems.

Assignment #2: Submission.

6. MATLAB: program flow.

7. Assignment #3: Matrices in IEEE standards.

8. Assignment #3: Consulting & submission.

9. Assignment #4: Polynomials & graphs 

FINAL assignment introduction.

10. Assignment #4:  Consulting & submission.

11. FINAL assignment consultation.

12. FINAL assignment consultation.

Further resources

• Mathworks: Matlab Help Center: Get Started with Matlab, available: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/getting-started-with-matlab.html 

• K. Zaplatílek, MATLAB pro začátečníky, BEN, 2005, ISBN: 8073001756

• B. Hahn, D. Valentine. Essential MATLAB for engineers and scientists 7th ed.Elsevier, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-08-102997-8

• A. Downey. Think Python 2nd ed. Greeen Tea Press, 2015, Dostupné na: https://thinkpython2.com/ 

• P. Volauf. Pravdepodobnosť a matematická štatistika, 2014, STU, ISBN: 978-80-227-4144-6