Final Exam: 06/12/2015 08:00A.M. - 11:00A.M.

The final covers Chapters 1-14 of the book.  Below is a list of some of the important topics in those chapters.  Caveat: this is not necessarily an exhaustive list of possible topics on
the exam.

Introduction
- processor, memory, disk
- binary

Variables
- assignment
- identifiers
- numeric variables, characters, strings, logical variables
- numeric operators, logical operators, relational operators
- floating point numbers
- floating point rounding and comparing floats

Scripts and Functions
- user-defined functions
- builtin math functions
- input
- fprintf

1D Arrays
- row arrays, column arrays
- constructing arrays
  - double colon operator
  - linspace and logspace
- manipulating arrays
- array indexing
  - integer indexing and logical indexing
  - end
- relational operators on row arrays
- strings as arrays
- functions and arrays

1D Array Operators
- elementwise arithmetic operators
  - +, -, .*, ./
  - between an array and an array or an array and a scalar
- logical operators
  - &, |, ~, xor
  - truth table
- combining logical and relational operators

File I/O
- save and load

Plotting
- 2D plotting
  - colors and line styles
  - plotting in same window
  - subplots

Strings
- casting with char and uint8
- string comparisons
  - ==
  - strcmp
- string manipulations
  - strrep
- strfind, strtrim, isspace, ischar, isletter
- num2str, int2str, sprintf
- str2double, str2num, sscanf
- arrays of strings with char()

2D Arrays
- construction, manipulation, indexing
- flattening and reshaping
- logical and relational operators

2D Arrays - Advanced concepts
- basic properties: length, ndims, numel, size
- elementary arrays: zeros, ones, eye, diag
- Array manipulation: fliplr, flipud, rot90, tril, triu
- repmat - tiling an array
- reshape - reshaping an array
- find
- sort and sortrows
- logical functions for arrays
  - type: ischar, isnumeric, isinteger, isfloat, islogical, isreal, isa
  - characteristics: isscalar, isvector, iscolumn, ismatrix, isempty
  - determine indices satisfying property: isprime, isfinite, isinf, isnan
  - all, any
  - ismember
- array arithmetic operations
  - elementwise 
    - plus +, minus -
    - times .*, rdivide ./
    - power .^
  - matrix
    - mtimes *, mrdivide /, mldivide \
    - mpower ^
    - transpose .', ctranspose '
- linear algebra functions
  - det, eig, inv, trace, norm, diag
- solving a system of linear equations with Matlab
  - Ax = b
  - solve as A \ b
- 2D functions
  - rand, randi
  - mean, std, median, mode, max, min, range, sum

Images/Plots
- 3D arrays
- RGB image
- indexed image
- image file ops
- 3D line plot
- meshgrid
- surf, mesh, contour
- scatter
- animation using pause

Branches
- if-else-end
- if-elseif-else-end
- switch-case-otherwise-end

Loops
- while-end
- for-end
- break

Functions
- functions handles
- anonymous functions
- local functions
- nested functions
- scope of variables
- global variable
- persistent variable
- recursion
- nargin

Cell arrays and Structure arrays
- constructing cell arrays
- cell indexing and content indexing of cell arrays
- structures
- comma separated lists

Numerics
- interpolation
  - interp1
- least squares regression
- polynomial least squares
  - polyfit, polyval
- transformation of some nonlinear regression problems 
  to linear polynomial regression
  - logspace vs. linspace
  - plotting: semilogx, semilogy, loglog
- numerical differentiation
  - diff