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As part of MATLAB Central’s 20 year anniversary celebration, we created the MATLAB Mini Hack . The contest starts today on Oct. 4th!

What to do?

Generate an interesting image using up to 280 characters of MATLAB code.

Who can play?

Participants across all skill levels are welcome. Create original entries of your own code, remix others’ entries and make them your own, or simply vote on ENTRIES you love!

How to win prizes?

Those at the top of the leaderboard at the end of the contest will win up to $300 Amazon gift cards, 5 customized T-shirts, or special badges. Visit the prizes section on the contest page for more information.

To add more fun, we will award RANDOM PRIZES that every participant has a chance to win.

• Each week, we will pick 5 players who participate in both the Treasure Hunt and MATLAB Mini Hack .
• Each week, we will have different surprise giveaways.

Important Notes

• The first week (Oct. 4th, 2021 ~ Oct. 10th 2021) is for creating entries only. Voting starts on Week 2.
• Make sure you follow the contests (click the ‘follow the contests’ button on the top) to get notified when prizes are awarded and of other important announcements. We hope you are the winner!

Several educators worldwide use MATLAB Grader to scale assessments and automatically grade MATLAB coding assignments. MATLAB Grader can be used in any learning environment, for both formative assessments with automated feedback and summative assessments, such as quizzes and exams.

Educators often revise and update their MATLAB Grader problems. They may sometimes want to revisit a past version of a problem, such as to debug an assessment test error. Instructor users can now browse the version history for a specific problem and see draft and final versions.

Note that the versions are read-only and rollback is not supported at this time. However, you can copy code or descriptions and update the problem accordingly.

Get started with MATLAB Grader. If you are new to it, watch the MATLAB Grader Overview video and try the interactive Teaching with MATLAB online course (Section 6 is about MATLAB Grader).

Join our celebration of the 20th anniversary of MATLAB Central community! You are invited to enter 2 contests - A Treasure Hunt and a MATLAB Mini Hack - to have fun and win prizes.

How to Play

• In the Treasure Hunt, complete 10 fun tasks to explore the ‘treasures’ in the community.
• In the MATLAB Mini Hack, use up to 280 characters of MATLAB code to generate an interesting image. Simply vote for the entries that you like or share your own entries to gain votes.

Prizes

You will have opportunities to win compelling prizes, including special edition T-shirts, customized T-shirts, Amazon gift cards, and virtual badges. Your participation will also bump up our charity donations.

Ready to participate?

Visit the community contests space and choose the contest you’d like to enter. Note that:

• You need a MathWorks account to participate. If you don’t have a MathWorks account, you can create one at MathWorks sign in .
• Make sure you follow the contests (click the ‘follow the contests’ button on the top) to get notified for prize information and important announcements.

For the full contest rules, prizes, and terms, see details here .

We hope you enjoy the contests and win big prizes. NOW, LET THE CELEBRATION BEGIN!

MATLAB Mobile makes it convenient to learn and teach in disciplines requiring computational thinking, such as mathematics, science, and engineering. It can also be used for virtual labs by acquiring smartphone sensor data. As an instructor, you can author examples in MATLAB and demonstrate them on your smartphone or tablet. Students can follow along on their mobile device or tablet to instantly connect results to the concepts they are learning. This is especially relevant for distance learning, where some students may have limited or no access to a full-fledged computer.

Educators make their course material more interactive, promote self-directed learning, and increase student engagement through Live Editor. You can now run and edit live scripts on iOS and Android devices.

Get MATLAB Mobile on the Play Store or App Store, or learn how to teach using Live Scripts.

Nowadays, many instructors are integrating AI to their courses. In a distance learning setting, the hardware students use to train their models vary. Training time of the deep learning models can be shortened with a pool of GPUs, CPUs or a pool of CPUs and GPUs locally or in the cloud. Accuracy of the results can depend on the hyperparameters used to train the models.

In MATLAB, Experiment Manager (introduced in R2020a) makes it easy to train networks with various hyperparameters and compare the results. Different models can be run in parallel by clicking on “Use Parallel” button in Experiment Manager App. But what if your computer has multiple CPU cores and a GPU? Would you be able to use Experiment Manager with a pool of CPUs and a GPU? The answer is “yes”. For example, my computer has 1 NVIDIA GPU and an 8 core CPU. To use all these computational resources, I typed these lines in my command window in MATLAB:

parpool(9);
spmd
if labindex==1
gpuDevice(1); %select GPU on worker 1
else
gpuDevice([]); %deselect GPU on remaining workers
end

Then, I clicked on “Use Parallel” button in Experiment Manager and used a modified setup function in Experiment Manager to change the execution environment from CPU to GPU:

if isempty(parallel.gpu.GPUDeviceManager.instance.SelectedDevice)
options=trainingOptions(~,"ExecutionEnvironment",'cpu');
else
options=trainingOptions(~,"ExecutionEnvironment",'gpu');
end 

Default training options automatically use an NVIDIA GPU if there is one, and specific hardware can be selected using “ExecutionEnvironment” in the trainingOptions.

If you like to learn more about the fundamentals of parallel computing, check out “Parallel Computing Fundamentals” on our documentation and gain some hands-on experience with Parallel Computing through "Parallel Computing Hands-On Workshop" .

Educators use MATLAB Grader to automatically grade MATLAB code, to provide feedback to their students and to scale assessments for large lectures. If you use MATLAB Grader in our browser-based environment at grader.mathworks.com you can view various individual and aggregate student performance analytics. You can export the MATLAB Grader Assignment Report to analyze your student’s performance in more detail:

To make things easy for you, we provide a utility to create customizable assignment reports from the MATLAB Grader Assignment Report. With this utility you can quickly make lists of students with a metric that defines how well they solved the problems within the assignment. You can explore the number of problems each student solved correctly, calculate the mean percentage score they received for the problems or specify points per problem and calculate the points they scored on the assignment.

Please download the utility Customizable Assignment Report for MATLAB Grader from File Exchange. If you are new to MATLAB Grader, watch the MATLAB Grader Overview video and try the interactive Teaching with MATLAB online course (Section 6 is about MATLAB Grader).

An earlier tip suggested using MATLAB Drive to share and collaborate with others using MATLAB Online or MATLAB on desktop systems. Starting in MATLAB R2021a, there is yet another advantage of using this approach – the 'matlabdrive' function returns the path to the folder that contains the content of your MATLAB Drive.

After sharing their files, instructors sometimes direct students to navigate to a specified folder or add certain folders to the MATLAB search path. This ensures that MATLAB can discover the scripts, functions, and other files contained within. Since the MATLAB Drive folder may be installed in different locations on each users’ computer, this could not be done programmatically. Unfortunately, students may miss these instructions and encounter errors. The same can happen between peers working in groups.

Add the matlabdrive function in your code to obtain the path of the MATLAB Drive folder. You can then use functions cd and fullfile to navigate directly to that location or a subfolder. With addpath, you can also add these to the MATLAB search path. For example,

>> drivePath = matlabdrive 
drivePath = 'C:\Users\username\MATLAB Drive' 

>> folderPath = fullfile(matlabdrive, ‘myfolder’) 
folderPath = 'C:\Users\username\MATLAB Drive\myfolder’ 

>> cd(folderPath)	% Change current folder to ‘myfolder’ in MATLAB Drive 

You can run matlabdrive from your desktop or from other MATLAB environments such as MATLAB Online. On desktop systems, you must have MATLAB Drive Connector installed. If MATLAB is unable to find the MATLAB Drive folder, matlabdrive returns an error.

The Symbolic Math Toolbox includes functions for solving, visualizing, and manipulating symbolic math equations. In combination with MATLAB’s Live Editor, it provides an easy, intuitive, and complete environment to interactively learn and teach algebra, calculus, and ordinary differential equations.

Starting with MATLAB R2021a, you can represent matrices and vectors in compact matrix notation with a new symbolic matrix variable data type. This enables a concise typeset display and show mathematical formulas with more clarity. Using them, you can show matrix- and vector-based expressions the way they are displayed in textbooks.

Contrast the visual difference between matrices of symbolic scalar variables and the new symbolic matrix variables:

The syms and symmatrix functions create symbolic matrix variables. To convert a symbolic matrix variable to an array of symbolic scalar variables, use symmatrix2sym. For an example, see Create Symbolic Matrix Variables.

If your university is among the thousands worldwide with a Campus-Wide License, you have unlimited access to all MathWorks products. Therefore, when sharing your MATLAB code online or with collaborators and students, you may want to verify which add-ons or toolboxes it requires. You may also have received files and want to determine missing add-ons or toolboxes you need to install in order to run it.

Starting in R2021a, MATLAB’s Dependency Analyzer detects and lists required add-ons, including apps and toolboxes, for a whole MATLAB Project or for selected files. It can also identify which file is introducing a product dependency. For more details, see Find Required Products and Add-Ons.

Happy New Year, everyone! We hope you enjoyed the Cody contest in 2020, learned new MATLAB skills, and made a friend or two. While the 2020 contest has concluded, the fun and learning never end.

Please take the 1-minute survey to talk about your experience (only 2 required questions). Our goal is to make future contests better and more appealing to you, so your feedback is critical to us.

Thank you in advance and hope to see you again in the 2021 contest.

We are excited to announce that Cody Contest 2020 starts today! Again, the rule is simple - solve any problem and rate its difficulty. If you have any question, please visit our FAQs page first. Want to know your ranking? Check out the contest leaderboard .

Happy problem-solving! We hope you are a winner.

Below are some FAQs for the Cody contest 2020. If you have any additional questions, ask your questions by replying to this post. We will keep updating the FAQs.

Q1: If I rate a problem I solved before the contest, will I still get a raffle ticket?

A: Yes. You can rate any problem you have solved, whether it was before or during the contest period.

Q2: When will I receive the contest badges that I've earned?

A: All badges will be awarded after the contest ends.

Q3: How do I know if I’m the raffle winner?

A: If you are a winner, we will contact you to get your name and mailing address. You can find the list of winners on the Cody contest page .

Q4: When will I receive my T-shirt or hat?

A: You will typically receive your prize within a few weeks. It might take longer for international shipping.

Q5: I'm new to Cody. If I have some questions about using Cody, how can I get help?

A: You can ask your question by replying this post. Other community users might help you and we will also monitor the threads. You might also find answers here .

Q6: What do I do if I have a question about a specific problem?

A: If the problem description is unclear, the test suite is broken, or similar concerns arise, post your question(s) as a comment on the specific problem page. If you are having a hard time solving a problem, you can post a comment to your solution attempt (after submitting it). However, do not ask other people to solve problems for you.

Q7: If I find a bug or notice someone is cheating/spamming during the contest, how can I report it?

A: Use Web Site Feedback . Select "MATLAB Central" from the category list.

Q8: Why can't I rate a problem?

A: To rate a problem, you must solve that problem first and have at least 50 total points.

Hi there! This is kind of an unusual question, but here it goes. I am a big time Matlab enthusiast and I met some of your representatives at Formula Student Germany back in August. There was a booth were your product was showcased but most importantly there was Matlab merchandise such as stickers, rub-on-tattoos and pens with the mathworks logo being handed out. This merchandise is increadibly popular with me and my nerdy friends. But sadly I didnt bring much with me from the event. Is it possible to get ahold some of it? Is it for sale? Are you willing to sponsor some geeky engineering students?