Yakimenko draws from the course he teaches at the Naval Postgraduate School to outline the MathWorks' MATLAB and Simulink development and modeling environment and shows undergraduate and graduate aeronautical and astronautical students taking courses in programming and digital computations, as well as working professionals, how to use the software tools in engineering computations. The volume progresses from the basics of programming to writing complex scripts using specific MATLAB features, describing the development environment and basic operations, how to write programs in MATLAB, its plotting capabilities, the Symbolic Math Toolbox, basic numerical methods coded in major functions, and numerical modeling in MATLAB and Simulink. Problem sets are included, and the graphical user interface development environment (GUIDE) is explained in an appendix. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)