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MATLAB Online Help
To view the online documentation, select the Help option on the MATLAB menu bar. (For more information about using the online documentation, see Help Browser.)
Under "Using MATLAB," the documentation is organized into these main topics:
- Development Environment - provides complete information on the MATLAB desktop.
- Mathematics - describes how to use MATLAB's mathematical and statistical capabilities.
- Programming and Data Types - describes how to create scripts and functions using the MATLAB language.
- Graphics - describes how to plot your data using MATLAB's graphics capabilities.
- 3-D Visualization - introduces how to use views, lighting, and transparency to achieve more complex graphic effects than can be achieved using the basic plotting functions.
- External Interfaces/API - describes MATLAB's interfaces to C and Fortran programs, Java classes and objects, data files, serial port I/O, ActiveX, and DDE.
- "Creating Graphical User Interfaces" - describes how to use MATLAB's graphical user interface layout tools.
Under "Reference," the online documentation is organized into these main topics:
- MATLAB Function Reference - covers all of the core MATLAB functions, providing information on function syntax, description, mathematical algorithm (where appropriate), and related functions.
You can easily locate any function using either the "Function By Category" or "Alphabetical List of Functions" options.
- External Interfaces/API Reference - covers those functions used by the MATLAB external interfaces, providing information on syntax in the calling language, description, arguments, return values, and examples.
The "Reference" also includes the "Graphics Object Property Browser," which enables you to easily access descriptions of graphics object properties. For more information about MATLAB graphics, see Handle Graphics.
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