Hints for C Users

Some advice to users of C (or C++):

• You don't have to declare your variables.
• Semicolons on the end of lines suppress output.
• Use & and | instead of && and ||.
• To get bitwise operations (& and | in C), see this link.
• Everything is stored as a 2-dimensional array of data.
• Use parentheses to index into matrices, not brackets, and use A(i, j), not A[i][j].
• All the operators are overloaded to work with matrices.
• The comment symbol is % and behaves like //.
• The output of Matlab functions can be assigned to vectors of variables, and often this is the only way to coerce the function to return certain outputs.
• In general, Matlab commands cannot span multiple lines unless you are using bracket notation to enter a matrix, or if you type the continuation operator ... before you press Enter.