Review and More MATLAB Programming Practice

Exam review

Algorithms and pseudo-code

Input

Count-controlled iteration using for loop

Conditional execution

Testing and debugging

Successive numeric approximation

Numeric approximation algorithms

What are the next two approximations that Newton's method finds for f(x) = x² - 2x + 1 and an initial guess of 3?

Code tracing

What is displayed in the Command Window when the following code fragment is executed?

p = [ 1, 2 ];
for n = [ 3 4 7 ]
    while p(1) < n
        if p(2) < n
            disp(p)
        end
        p = p + 1;
    end
end
disp(p)

Code writing

Write a program that allows a user to play a game of ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS against the computer.