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    Matlab tutorial course

    michael.berks@manchester.ac.uk

    Lesson 6: Programming tips


    From last week
    • Reading Matlab format files in Python
    – See File IO in the SciPy module (in conda)
    – https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutoria
    l/io.html
    – import scipy.io as sio
    – sio.loadmat
    – sio.savemat
    – sio.whosmat
    From last week
    • Matlab Central File Exchange
    • https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/file
    exchange/?s_tid=gn_mlc_fx
    • eg Search for “Read Analyze format”
    First, the slide on num2str from last week…
    Five V
    Cinq 101
    5
    Funf
    A = 5;
    B = ‘5’; C = num2str(A);
    Lesson overview
    • Write code that’s easy to read – you’ll thank
    yourselves later!
    • Pay attention to Matlab’s code hints
    • Using tic, toc and the time profiler
    • Using the Matlab debugger
    Readable code
    • What code you write determines how a
    program works
    • How you write it determines how easy it is for
    you (anyone else) to understand it
    • Think of it like your handwriting…
    … it’s no use making notes in a lecture if when
    you come to revise from them you can’t read
    your own handwriting or remember what any
    of your abbreviations mean!
    Readable code
    • Expressive variables names
    – Describe what a variable is, use ‘_’ or capitals to separate words
    • E.g. find_max or findMax
    – For loop counters use “i_name” where name is what your looping through
    • E.g. i_row, i_col, i_im etc.
    – Makes it much less likely you accidently reuse a variable name
    • E.g. you use ‘r’ for row, then later use ‘r’ for radius, then try and reuse ‘r’ as a row index

    • Comments
    – At start of function, describe function purpose, use, and its inputs/outputs
    – Every few lines to describe what you’re doing
    – Before major blocks of code to describe the general purpose of the next
    section

    • Nesting loops, if clauses


    – No excuses, the editor does this for you!

    • See local maxima example in ‘programming_tips.mat’


    Efficient code - tips
    • In loops, check only calculations that vary on each
    iteration are inside the loop
    • If applying some transformation to a large array,
    then taking, min, max, mean etc. see if you can
    apply the transformation afterwards
    – A = rand(1024);
    – A_max2a = max(sqrt(A(:)));
    • Computes square root of 1 million values, then takes max
    – A_max2b = sqrt(max(A(:)));
    • Takes max, then computes square root on 1 value
    Efficient code – checking time
    • If code is running slow we want to know why
    • The functions tic and toc give us a quick way
    to check execution time
    • For a more complete assessment we can use
    Matlab’s time profiler
    • See example in ‘programming_tips.m’
    Memory management
    • Pre-allocate, pre-allocate, pre-allocate
    – Think of it like packing the boot of a car…
    … put your biggest items in first, then pack all the
    smaller stuff around them
    Separating functions
    • If ever you find yourself copying code between
    functions/scripts, you probably want to create
    a new function

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