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Goal for Week 3: Making graphical representations of lists of numbers

Summary of new tools and commands.

`plot(x,y)` Plot a line defined by lists x and y.
`title('string')` Put a character string over the top center of the plot.
`xlabel('string')` Put a character string at the bottom center.
`ylabel('string')` Put a character string at the left.
`xlim, ylim` Constrain the range of values on the x and y axes.
`loglog(x,y)` Plot a line defined by the common log of x and the log of y.
`semilogx(x,y),semilogy(x,y)` Plot a line defined by the y vs common log of x or common log of y vs x .
`hold on, hold off` Freeze (and unfreeze) the plot scale to add more lines to a plot.
`plotyy` plot two separate lines with different scales.
`text(x,y,'c')` Put a character string on the plot in the indicated place (based on user units).
`print` Save a plot to a file or sends it to the printer.
`subplot` create an array of plots on a page.
`figure` open a new graphics window for a plot.
`...` continue command on the next line.

Tasks for Week 3
	Tasks
1	Create a simple, annotated line plot using lists of values (x,y).
2	Print or save the figure to a file.
3	Control the use of symbols, line styles and colors; control axis scales; use common log scaling.
4	Put several lines on a graph.
5	Put several graphs on a page.
6	Organizing programming steps

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