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The author also provides recommendations on use of the integrated development environment features that help produce better, more consistent software.
This is a very clearly organized and written book. Serious Matlab users will have already formed opinions and developed 'styles' on many of the topics covered, but the author's suggestions and the underlying reasoning are worth considering nevertheless. I found myself agreeing with about 80% of his material and at least half of the remainder was at least worth considering.
An example: the author recommends arranging code flow (including 'continues', 'breaks', and 'returns' in functions so that there is only a single exit point for the entire function. While I partially disagree (if the input is bad, I see no reason not to incorporate an immediate 'return'; the alternative is bound to involve setting and checking an otherwise unneeded flag), at least considering this principle has made for - I think - better flow in the functions I've written subsequently. And the discussion of Matlab's 'publish' feature, and coding for it, has opened my eyes and those of a co-worker to a whole new way of producing report-quality output automatically. As I write this, I actually make my living writing Matlab code, but I think even for beginners in the language the sample code snippets will make worthwhile parsing.
