Here is a list of some of the places where more help regarding MatLab
can be found (several listings below A, B, ...E):

A) The MatLab manuals, tutorial and help are quite good. Check them out!

  Information as to how to access the on-line MatLab help shows up on the
  command window as soon as you start MatLab.

  The two basic commands in MatLab you should always remeber are:

   lookfor   ... If you want to do something in MatLab, but had no idea if it
                 can be done and (if so) what is the command to do it:
                 USE lookfor, as in (for example)

                                    >> lookfor plot

                 (here >> is the MatLab prompt). This will list all the MatLab
                 commands where the word plot shows up somewhere in their docs
                 ... most of them will be useless to you at any given time ...
                 but the ones you need will also be there.

   help ........ Once you have a command name ">> help command_name" tells you
                 how to use it.

B) Check the Matlab on Athena page at:

        http://web.mit.edu/matlab/www/home.html

  Also, Athena  offers Minicourse on Matlab once in a while. There is a bunch
  of "frequently answered questions" at:

        http://web.mit.edu:1962/tiserve.mit.edu/9000/35434.html

C) Matlab on Athena web pages; tutorial by Dr. Kermit Sigmon at the University
  of Florida at:

        http://web.mit.edu/matlab/doc/primer.dvi

  This is in DVI format, so you may not be able to read it on your PC and/or
  Macs unless you have LaTeX/TeX installed, but it should display on Athena
  workstations.

  You have the option of using the "dvips" program to translate the dvi file
  into a postscript file (download the dvi file into your Athena account and
  then use: dvips file_name.dvi to get a ps file). To find out how to access
  dvips in Athena    (you'll have to add some locker where the software is),
  ask an Athena consultant. I don't know where they keep it.

  Once you have the file in PostScript, you have the option of using something
  like "distill" to get a pdf version (i.e. distill file_name.ps should do it)
  ... again, I don't know where distill is in Athena, but it should be there.
  By the way: ps2pdf is another program that will do this, but distill is much
  better.

  Once you have the file in ps or pdf, you can transfer it to your personal
  machine for use. PostScript is text, so do the transfer in text mode; but
  for pdf use binary transfer (raw data).

D) Introductory notes provided by Indiana University at:

        http://www.indiana.edu/~statmath/math/matlab/

  Ignore the Indiana-specific information.

E) "A Practical Introduction to MATLAB" is available at

       http://www.math.mtu.edu/~msgocken/intro/intro.html

 It is a good starting. The section on "Simple calculations and graphs" is
 particularly appropriate for help in getting started.


I hope this is helpful.