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Master MATLAB through Guided Problem Solving (Udemy.com)

Become an expert in MATLAB Programming and Scientific Computing. Advance your career in Engineering Physics Biology etc

Created by: Tim Buchalka's Learn Programming Academy

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • Intermediate to advanced MATLAB programming proficiency. This is *the only course* that develops intermediate and advanced programming skills.
  • Experience with real-world applications including signal processing, matrix decompositions, spectral analysis, linear and nonlinear model-fitting, and statistic
  • Gain skills to solve challenging problems in MATLAB, as opposed to memorizing syntax rules.
  • Data science projects and problem-solving in MATLAB

How it compares

Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 45% of them
  • Reviews4,374#124 of 1,183 by number of reviews
  • Length38 hourslonger than 95% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 84% of them

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Course Description

MATLAB is the premier programming language of scientific computing in university, research, and industry.

Excellent MATLAB programming skills can make or break a career in engineering, physics, biology, finance, and many other fields.

But how do you learn how to program in MATLAB? Sure, you can watch some tutorial videos online, but those videos generally focus on the most basic coding skills, like what is a variable and how to write a for-loop.

Those are important foundations, but they won't make you competitive. If you want to be competitive, you need to become a master at MATLAB programming. And that's what you'll learn in this course.

This course is different from other MATLAB programming courses!

Rather than having short videos that presents a simple piece of MATLAB syntax, this course starts from the real-world perspective: Problems in data science that you can solve with MATLAB.

Do you need to learn how to filter your signal in MATLAB?  There's a section for that!

Do you have a complicated formula and you need to translate it into MATLAB code and make a graph that simulates the formula with different parameters? Yeah, there's a section on that as well!

Do you need to make a movie of a 3D simulation changing in color over time and then export as an .avi file? This course covers that as well!   

Maybe you want to learn how to make textured landscapes using fractal math, or use SVD to compute the low-rank approximation of a data matrix, or use nonlinear search methods to fit a 3-parameter Gaussian model to data? You guessed it -- it's all covered in this course!

If you are looking for a slow, gentle course that will take baby-steps to teach you what you could have learned on your own, then this is not that course.

If you want to gain confidence in solving real-world problems in MATLAB coding to advance your studies, your research, and your career by learning MATLAB programming from a single course with >35 hours of hands-on instruction from a world-class scientist, teacher, and writer, then this course is definitely right for you.

Key topics covered.

The basic stuff: loops, functions, IO, etc. Core skills you need to be able to progress with MATLAB for scientific computing or data science.

The more intermediate and advanced topics in the course include:

2D and 3D plotting, and data animations (movies)

Image and time series segmentation

Calculus and differential equations

Univariate and multivariate time series cleaning and analysis

Spectral (Fourier) and time-frequency analyses

Linear algebra including eigendecomposition, orthogonalization, and principal components analysis

Generating fractal pictures and time series

Nonparametric statistics and nonlinear model fitting

Get started today!

There is no doubt that MATLAB is the premier programming language of scientific computing and data science in university, research, and industry. 

The sooner you sign up for this course, the sooner you will be able to advance your career in engineering, physics, biology, finance (or other fields using MATLAB).

Why not get started today?

Click the Signup button to sign up for the course!

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Instructor Details

The Learn Programming Academy was created by Tim Buchalka, a software developer with 40 years experience, who is also an instructor on Udemy, with over 2.28M+ students in his courses on Java, Python, Android, C#  and the Spring framework. 

The Academy’s goal in the next three years, is to teach five million people to learn how to program.

Apart from Tim’s own courses, which are all available here, we are working with the very best teachers, creating courses to teach the essential skills required by developers, at all levels.

One other important philosophy is that our courses are taught by real professionals; software developers with real and substantial experience in the industry, who are also great teachers.  All our instructors are experienced, software developers!

Our team is busy creating new courses right now.

Whether you are a beginner, looking to learn how to program for the very first time, or to brush up on your existing skills, or to learn new languages and frameworks, the Academy has you covered.

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Reviews

4.5

4,374 ratings on Udemy

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By Nguyen Ba Hoai Linh on 6/21/2021

This course is really useful and interesting for who already have some basic knowledge about MATLAB and want to get more valuable insights on its applications (basic applications, though). However, various sections (latter sections) need more explanation about the problems and how some variables were named into the available codes. It will help save time to understand the problems because I can solve the code myself fairly easy if I understand the problems but this progress took most of my time on some sections.

By Moreshwar Salpekar on 2/21/2021

It was a wonderful course and with all the coding, it was easy to understand what was being taught. That being said, I needed to look up the formulae and the concepts behind all was being taught. Though Internet is a good look up, an offline book recommendation will help surely in understanding the concepts and formulae beforehand. For example, the matrices and spectral analysis required looking up book . I surely hadn't read some of the material in long as I never needed to work practically.

By Sebastian Requena on 11/27/2020

Wow, what a complete and thorough matlab course. My background is a physicist that was very experienced in Python for scientific computing and data analysis. I now work in an industry position where matlab is the tool of choice. I picked up this course to get up to speed. Besides being very proficient in matlab upon completing the course, I have a full "cookbook" of matlab recipes to use as reference. Fantastic course that I would highly recommend to anyone serious about learning matlab.

By Wyatt Michael Watson on 11/15/2020

I like the slow introduction as its very understandable

By Vinay Nanani on 11/15/2020

till now it is very amazing and fun.

By Anonymous on 11/15/2020

that's what an engineer student needs!

By Suma S Parvatikar on 11/15/2020

Clear expression of intention

By SARIKA DHANUNJAYA RAO on 11/8/2020

Nice

By Aviel Eliyahu on 11/8/2020

This course was not only very challenging and informative but also very fun!
I tried my best to solve most of the projects on my own, and I can say that even if I managed to solve the problem, Mike's video always taught me something new!
I wish that there was a brief explanation of the main skills/functions at the beginning of each section, and maybe a brief explanation of the different data types, but still this course taught me a lot and I'm glad that I took it :)

By Aviel Eliyahu on 11/3/2020

This course was not only very challenging and informative but also very fun! I tried my best to solve most of the projects on my own, and I can say that even if I managed to solve the problem, Mike's video always taught me something new! I wish that there was a brief explanation of the main skills/functions at the beginning of each section, and maybe a brief explanation of the different data types, but still this course taught me a lot and I'm glad that I took it :)

By Nisha on 10/27/2020

Amazing course, who really want to learn MATLAB. Thanks Prof. Mike!!!

By Manish Panchasara on 10/14/2020

It is just a beginning and significantly it is "good" beginning. Just to get more out of this course I have purchased course on linear algebra and I think I made a sensible decision.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100