Beta Readers Needed for MATLAB for Dummies
Math is the basis for a good many human endeavors and we often use it without thinking about it. For example, when you go to the store to buy groceries, the clerk who checks you out relies on math to...
View ArticleCoding Schools and the Learning Process
There are three essential ways to begin a career as a developer. The first is to get a college degree in the subject, which is normally a Bachelor of Computer Science or a Bachelor of Information...
View ArticleAnnouncing MATLAB for Dummies
If you’ve ever wondered how to solve certain kinds of advanced mathematics, then MATLAB may fulfill the need for you. Schools are also using MATLAB as a teaching tool now because it provides so many...
View ArticleGetting Your MATLAB for Dummies Extras
The process of discovering how to use MATLAB begins when you get your copy of MATLAB for Dummies. However, it only starts there. Like many of my other books, you can also find online content for MATLAB...
View ArticleTable 3-1 in MATLAB for Dummies
A reader wrote a short while ago about a potential error in Table 3-1 on page 51 of MATLAB for Dummies. Errors do creep into books during the writing process and, despite my best efforts, no one spots...
View ArticleThe Importance of Finding Work
Readers sometimes show patterns in the questions they ask and, in some cases, the pattern shows across a number of my books. When I started to note that readers were interested in discovering just how...
View ArticleMathWorks Promotes MATLAB for Dummies
I was incredibly pleased to receive an e-mail the other day stating that MathWorks, the makers of MATLAB, had placed a link for MATLAB for Dummies on their site. I’m always thrilled to receive that...
View ArticleConsidering the Effects of Automation
After recently watching Disney’s new movie, Tomorrowland, I started thinking about the world that really could come about tomorrow. Of course, it will have many of the same problems we have today, but...
View ArticleSource Code Placement
I always recommend that you download the source code for my books. The Verifying Your Hand Typed Code post discusses some of the issues that readers encounter when typing code by hand. However, I also...
View ArticleUsing the Correct Product with MATLAB for Dummies
A reader recently wrote in with a problem with the example on pages 311 and 312 of MATLAB for Dummies. In this case, the reader was using the R2015b academic license edition. What the reader saw was...
View ArticleWorking with Code in e-Books
Most of my technical readers now use e-books instead of paper books. Of course, there is a convenience factor to storing your entire library on a Kindle, even if it’s a software version of the Kindle....
View ArticleMac Gatekeeper Error
A number of my books, such as C++ All-In-One for Dummies, 3rd Edition, Beginning Programming with Python For Dummies, Python for Data Science for Dummies, and Machine Learning for Dummies ask readers...
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