<p>Would colleges care about MATLAB proficiency?</p>
<p>That being said:
I know this is very basic, but how do you write an expression that refers to only the odd numbered elements in any vector, regardless of the length of the vector?</p>
<p>The vectors are:
avec = 1:8
bvec = 1:2:31</p>
<p>[MATLAB</a> - Documentation](<a href=“http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/]MATLAB”>MATLAB Documentation)</p>
<p>Colleges might care if you can program/have experience actually building programs. Mere proficiency is not much, though.</p>
<p>Don’t know much about matlab (even though it’s C-based, and I know Java). Just a thought: is there a mapping function to check the modulo 2 of each number? then, the function would only apply to the elements where (= 1 (modulo 2 element)), or (2 % element) = 1. Or, better yet, learn scheme/racket. [url=<a href=“http://www.racket-lang.org/]Racket[/url”>http://www.racket-lang.org/]Racket[/url</a>] Learning a functional language/recursion will make your life more satisfying.</p>
<p>I am kind of disappointed about MATLAB. You pretty much need to learn a new language, and once you get the hang of it, it should be simple. The thing about MATLAB is that it often gets very complex, and the language gets convoluted. You try to learn from those books and tutorials, but they seem to skip over information that they assume you know. And all of this for what? Sometimes, I feel that it should be rendered useless in comparison to Excel. Nevertheless, MATLAB goes above and beyond Excel, but for completing simple tasks, Excel is much better.</p>
<p>I’m trying to use MATLAB for a science competition.</p>