Get started with MATLAB and ChatGPT for scientific coding (Udemy.com)
Learn the key MATLAB programming skills that separate experts from novices: debugging, functions, and visualization
Created by: Mike X Cohen
Last updated August 2026
What you will learn
- Introduction to MATLAB
- How to write scripts and functions
- Visualize data in 2D and 3D
- Control statements
- Develop your programming style
- Think like a programmer
- Find and fix bugs!
- Learn the most common coding mistakes and how to avoid them
- Strategies for planning and organizing your code
How it compares
Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 67% of them
- Reviews1,349#330 of 1,183 by number of reviews
- Length11.2 hourslonger than 75% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 84% of them
Course Description
Welcome to "Get started with MATLAB for scientific coding"!
This course is designed to revolutionize your journey to mastering MATLAB, one of the industry's leading programming languages for data visualization, numerical computation, and algorithm development.
This course is unique in that it integrates ChatGPT, a powerful AI language model developed by OpenAI, to support and enhance your learning experience.
Who is this course for?
Whether you're a student trying to grapple with MATLAB for your coursework, a researcher aiming to analyze large data sets, or a professional seeking to enhance your coding skills, this course is tailored for you. No prior programming knowledge is required -- I start from the basics and gradually build up to more complex topics.
What will you learn?
This course takes a comprehensive and engaging approach to learning MATLAB, covering everything from the basics of MATLAB's desktop environment, variable types, scripts and functions, to data import/export, control statement architecture, and data visualization techniques.
But you won't stop there... you will be introduced to ChatGPT and learn how to utilize this AI tool effectively to aid your coding journey. ChatGPT can translate natural language into code, improve your code, help in choosing the right coding structures, assist in debugging, and even explain complex code in plain English! This unique blend of learning to code while having an AI assistant is a novelty that sets our course apart.
Throughout the course, you will:
Understand the MATLAB desktop environment and how to use MATLAB as a calculator
Learn about different types of variables including numbers, strings, logic, and structures
Gain insights into the organization of scripts and functions, and the significance of function inputs and outputs
Develop skills to read and write data in MATLAB, text, and Excel formats
Master control statements such as if-else, for-loops, and while-loops
Learn about data visualization and figure plotting in MATLAB
Get introduced to coding errors and debugging strategies, including the FIP (find, inspect, plot) strategy
And much more...
Course highlights:
Detailed explanations of core MATLAB concepts with clear, visual examples
Plenty of hands-on exercises and practical applications to solidify your understanding
Interactive guidance from ChatGPT to assist with coding problems, debugging, and understanding complex concepts
Access to downloadable resources and code files for offline study and practice
Why choose this course?
Your instructor, Mike (that's me!), brings over 20 years of experience teaching programming and data visualization. With a deep understanding of the hurdles that students face when learning MATLAB, I have designed this course not just to teach MATLAB, but to build strong, transferable programming skills. My teaching is complemented by ChatGPT, which is available for interactive programming help and guidance.
By the end of this course, you will not only be proficient in MATLAB programming, but also develop a strong understanding of scientific coding principles. Above all, you will learn how to work in tandem with AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance your coding skills and productivity.
So why wait? Enroll now and embark on a transformative journey of learning MATLAB with ChatGPT. I hope to see you soon in the course.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
1,349 Reviews
Mike X Cohen
I am a full-time educator and writer, and former professor of neuroscience. I "retired" from that position so I could focus my time and energy creating high-quality educational material just for you.
I have 20 years of experience teaching programming, data analysis, signal processing, statistics, linear algebra, and experiment design. I've taught undergraduate students, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and full professors. I have taught in "traditional" university courses, special week-long intensive courses, and Nobel prize-winning research labs. I have >100 hours of online lectures on neuroscience data analysis that you can find on my website and youtube channel. And I've written several technical books about these topics with a few more on the way.
I'm not trying to show off -- I'm trying to convince you that you've come to the right place to maximize your learning from an instructor who has spent two decades refining and perfecting his teaching style.
Over 350,000 students have watched over 50,000,000 minutes of my courses. Come find out why!
I have several free courses that you can enroll in. Try them out! You got nothing to lose ;)
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By popular request, here are suggested course progressions for various educational goals:
MATLAB programming: Get Started with MATLAB; Master MATLAB; Image Processing
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Reviews
By Daphne Sullivan on 2/28/2025
This is an excellent course which is really useful in helping you get to grips with the basics of Matlab. Mike is awesome, he is a great teacher and very knowledgeable. He also always replies very quickly in the Q&A forum with helpful responses if you are stuck. I've really enjoyed doing this course and I've learned a lot. I'm also in the middle of doing Mike's course on Deep Learning (which is amazing). Thanks for the great course Mike!
By Luisa Alessia Grote on 12/3/2024
I came over from the neural time signaling course after realising that I did not have the necessary understanding of coding to successfully continue that course - I was dreading every day I had to try and learn to use MATLAB again. However, this course now really helped me a lot, as it picked me up right at the start. This course teaches you the fundamental basics that are elsewhere often just assumed to be known and not further addressed. I was able to make a lot of progress in a very short time and feel much more prepared to take another MATLAB course now that I finally know how to interact with it and how to tackle basic problems. However, Mike lost me for a brief moment in Section 10 and I had to rewind the videos from time to time to understand what was going on. Luckily, his teaching style is really encouraging and motivational, so that I took my time and figured it out. I can really recommend this course for absolute beginners like myself.
By O P M on 12/13/2022
The instructor, Mike X Cohen is an excellent expert in the subject matter and at the same time shows incredible teaching capability. Both these qualities are not very common for a professor/instructor/teacher. Mike has covered the concepts in using MATLAB with lots of examples and exercises. My time spent on this course is worth every moment! Thanks, Mr. Mike for working so hard in creating and teaching this course. Next, I am going to take one of his many courses.
By Erik Brewster on 5/21/2022
There is a lot to like here. A lot of basics are covered. The pace is slow, to not lose beginners (listening at 1.5x can be helpful). The instructor seems to know his stuff. Certainly at the level needed for this course. But some of the bad habits shown are grating: - I have now watched many hours of large font MATLAB with the editor / command window split such that I nearly never can see the complete output in the command window. This would be forgivable, but for the fact that nearly the right two thirds of the screen are essentially unused. I get that the instructor likes this layout at his native resolution, but it's poison for readability on this course. A side by side split would work much better. - Dumbing down concepts needlessly (ex: "miniverse" in lesson 40). If there is time to discuss something, use the correct terms. There are likely beginners starting their programming careers here, and this is just filling their heads with nonsense words that can be confused with terms that actually need to be learned. - Naming bad habits (ex: ilikechocholate for a conditional breakpoint variable, lesson 40). There is no reason for this (nonsense name, no camelCase / underscores). It takes away from the 99% of the course that the instructor does a good job on. These kinds of problems can be very grating after watching them hours on end. I do not feel that the instructor is CS ignorant. I suspect he has just formed some bad habits and has enshrined them in this course. Despite all my complaining, there is a lot of useful content in this course and is useful.
By Chao Han on 3/6/2021
I've been self-taught MATLAB as I was going through Mike's analyzing neural time series courses. I was very happy to find that Mike has a separate intro course for MATLAB. The course helps me organize what I have known and teaches me what I didn't know. It saves me countless hours which could have been spent on searching for core learning materials appropriate for a MATLAB beginner. And it's a blessing to find someone who can deliver ideas in a way that's as clear and enjoyable as Mike.
By Efe Kkkeskin on 10/27/2020
Good :)
By Gabriel Federo Hungria on 10/27/2020
Excellent so far. The teacher speaks in a good way; good examples. The visual of the course is also outstanding.
By Luigi Ideo on 10/16/2020
troppo di base finora
By Gianluca Chiarolanza on 9/16/2020
Today I have reached the end of this course and, as I had anticipated in a previous mid-course review, I can confirm that it was definitely worth the purchase. The course provides the perfect balance between theory and exercises to learn the basics of Matlab programming and the software main and additional functionalities. The teacher speaks slowly and clearly, so his English is perfectly understandable (though I left subtitles on to make sure I was not missing anything). Also, the teacher explains in a very clear and efficient way, he knows exactly how to communicate and how to transfer his knowledge to students. Not by chance, he possesses a strong background in neuroscience and years of experience in teaching. His expertise in Matlab is clearly enormous; that makes me confident that Ive learnt the basics of programming from the right person. I also appreciated the increasing difficulty of the lessons and the duration of the course, since 10.5 hours is not too long. I advise any student interested in following this course to take lots of notes on a separate word file, especially if, like me, its their first time dealing with programming. I will consider to buy Master Python programming by solving scientific projects next.
By M.Naveen Kumar on 8/23/2020
It was little bit confusing sir.But i try to practise more this session.Giving '%' comment improper make any changes in the command window.(or like c programming command will not affect the program)
By Gianina Maria Ronceros Aparicio on 8/22/2020
SI
By Prasanna Gawade on 8/10/2020
It was really a good experience
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