# Outline

Determine whether MATLAB is for you! During this free, online workshop you will discover the MATLAB environment, learn how to define variables, and perform basic calculations on vectors and matrices. The so-called “Matrix Laboratory” is an interactive and intuitive programming language which can handle large data sets and performs matrix manipulations especially well. MATLAB is popular in Science and Engineering, and is often used by researchers for data analysis and visualisation.

To participate in the workshop, you will need:

* a computer (or laptop) with internet access and a web browser;
* Zoom installed on your computer --- you can download Zoom for free from [https://zoom.us/download](https://zoom.us/download);
* a Mathworks account --- you can create one using your unimelb credentials here: [https://au.mathworks.com](https://au.mathworks.com/) or follow the instructions on [Accessing MATLAB](access).
