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    copied!<p>With respect to unexpected or non-intuitive MATLAB features that may cause them confusion, there are some good pointers in this question:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1710299/corner-cases-unexpected-and-unusual-matlab">Corner Cases, Unexpected and Unusual MATLAB</a></li> </ul> <p>With respect to cool time-saving/efficiency tricks, this other question has some nice examples:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/132092/what-are-your-favourite-matlab-octave-programming-tricks">What are your favourite MATLAB/Octave programming tricks?</a></li> </ul> <p>And for a few potentially more advanced topics, you can refer to the answers to this question:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2501133/matlab-interview-questions">MATLAB interview questions?</a></li> </ul> <p>Now for my $0.02. Based on the sorts of questions I've seen asked most frequently on SO, I'd say you will want to make sure they have a good understanding of the following concepts:</p> <ul> <li>Reading and writing data files of different formats, such as using <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/csvread.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CSVREAD</a>, <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/dlmread.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">DLMREAD</a>, <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/textread.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TEXTREAD</a>, <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/fread.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FREAD</a>, <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/fscanf.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FSCANF</a>, <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/load.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LOAD</a>, and all their write equivalents.</li> <li>How to deal effectively with <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab_prog/br04bw6-98.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">cell arrays</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/creating_plots/f2-10709.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">different image formats</a>, how these are represented, and how to modify them (which will involve a discussion of <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab_prog/f2-43934.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">various data types</a> and how to deal with <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/math/f1-86528.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">multi-dimensional arrays</a>).</li> <li>How to use <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/learn_matlab/f3-15974.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">handle graphics</a> to control the appearance of various graphics objects.</li> </ul> <p>And here are some neat features that are already implemented in MATLAB that may save them some time and effort:</p> <ul> <li>Functions for performing various <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/f16-5872.html#f16-55525" rel="nofollow noreferrer">array operations</a>, like <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/kron.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">KRON</a>, <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/diag.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">DIAG</a>, and <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/triu.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TRIU</a>.</li> <li>Functions to create <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/f16-5872.html#f16-6070" rel="nofollow noreferrer">specialized matrices</a>, like <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/hankel.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HANKEL</a> and <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/toeplitz.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">TOEPLITZ</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/f16-40727.html#f16-8026" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Predefined dialog boxes</a>, like <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/uigetfile.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">UIGETFILE</a> and <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/inputdlg.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">INPUTDLG</a>.</li> </ul>
 

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