This course is designed to help you get started working with Matlab. Following topics are going to be covered: User interface of Matlab: what are the different windows for? How to perform arithmetic and relational operations How to use the command "help" Assigning numerical values to variables Creating and manipulating vectors/ arrays Creating and manipulating matrices Plotting 2D graphs to visualize your data How to import data from a text- or Excel-file Performing basic statistical analysis of your data