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M-Book Graphics 97
More Hints for Effective Use of M-Books 98
A Warning 99
7 MATLAB Programming 101
Branching 101
Branching with if 102
Logical Expressions 104
Branching with switch 108
More about Loops 109
Open-Ended Loops 110
Breaking from a Loop 111
Other Programming Commands 112
Subfunctions 112
Commands for Parsing Input and Output 112
User Input and Screen Output 114
Evaluation 116
Debugging 117
Interacting withthe Operating System 118
Calling External Programs 118
File Input and Output 119
8 SIMULINK and GUIs 121
SIMULINK 121

Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) 127
GUI Layout and GUIDE 127
Saving and Running a GUI 130
GUI Callback Functions 132
9 Applications 136
Illuminating a Room 137
One 300-Watt Bulb 137
Two 150-Watt Bulbs 138
Three 100-Watt Bulbs 143
Mortgage Payments 145
Monte Carlo Simulation 149
Population Dynamics 156
Exponential Growthand Decay 157