Matlab training, for our trainers!

By Damien Irving & Katie Ewing

As the popularity of Software Carpentry has grown in recent years, people have naturally begun to ask, “instead of teaching programming best practices using Python or R, could you please run some bootcamps using Matlab instead?” That’s a fair enough request, so earlier this year the first ever Matlab bootcamp was held at the University of Manchester. The event was a great success, so the developers at Matlab HQ (aka MathWorks) decided to write up the teaching materials and make them freely available for others to use.

Many of the researchers we work with use Matlab, so we eagerly snapped up the materials as soon as they were released. We then called in a favour from Abhaya Parthy, who is an Application Engineer at MathWorks in Sydney. Abhaya was very keen to help us run our own Matlab bootcamp, so he spent an afternoon with our Matlab teaching team, bringing them up to speed on both the new teaching materials and the latest features in Matlab.

Registrations for our first ever Matlab bootcamp are now open, so checkout the bootcamp website if you’d like to come along. If you already know a fair bit about Matlab, perhaps you’d like to join our Matlab teaching team? Katie promises that she’ll make chocolate cake for all our meetings… ;-)



Research can be ‘bazaar’, we’re here to help! Don’t understand how? Read our mission statement. Flick us a tweet, watch a video, check out our page and follow our blog posts - both formal and fun. Even better than the virtual, meet like minded researchers at one of our events. Come engage with the Melbourne research community!

Get started by contacting your discipline’s 'Research Community Coordinator’, who can help you learn new tools and have fun collaborating with fellow researchers. Here’s the full list.