Pre-Lab assignment for MatLab To prepare for the laboratory session on MatLab, please do the following prior to the laboratory period: Download and install MatLab on your personal laptop computer (see get access section) .* During MatLab Installation, select all of the following additional "Toolboxes": Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox Curve Fitting Toolbox Symbolic Math Toolbox Download the custom scripts and binary files ( Get Scripts Here ), and put these files in the default MatLab directory on your computer. Learn the basics: Proceed through the first two Matlab Getting Started tutorials that are provided when you open the software (Desktop Basics and Matrices and Arrays). Bring your computer, with MatLab installed, to the lab meeting. We will meet in a classroom, thus lab attire is not necessary for this session. *It is recommended that you install MatLab on your own computer, but there are other way to access MatLab if necessary ( get access ). This week is an exception in that there is no written work to submit prior to the meeting. However, for nearly the entirety of the semester, you should expect to submit a pre-lab assignment 24-hours prior to the start of each new module. The general instructions for preparation for laboratory are copied below for reference. A description of the General Expectations for Pre-Lab Assignments is in 1.2: Expectations for Course Assignments .