Ep. 3 Match code block output to input

[ChucklesOnGitHub]

In the episode,
https://github.com/swcarpentry/matlab-novice-inflammation/edit/gh-pages/_episodes/03-plotting.md

in the third Matlab input:

disp('Maximum inflammation:)
disp(max(patient_data(:)))

the students would not actually see the output as displayed in the materials:
Maximum inflammation:
20

But rather, sequential outputs because we are using the command window:

disp('Maximum inflammation:')
Maximum inflammation:
disp(max(patient_data(:)))
20

Since we haven't introduced the editor and scripting at this point, maybe a solution is concatenanting arrays as done in previous episodes even if it is somewhat lengthy and nested.

disp( ['Maximum inflammation: ' , num2str(max(patient_data(:))) ] )

Or alternatively, but not necessarily advisable, on the same line:

disp('Maximum inflammation:'); disp(max(patient_data(:)));

In any case, the block of input commands (max, min, std) and its actual output should be matched.

[gcapes]

Thanks for the issue. You're right they don't match exactly. While this would only be a potential problem to those following the notes rather than an instructor, we should fix this.

I'm wondering what the best solution would be. I like your idea of two commands on the same line separated by semi-colons. I'm also thinking whether it would be easiest to use double quotes which would mean strings instead of character arrays. So we could do something like this:
disp("Maximum inflammation: " + num2str(max(patient_data(:))))

This would require some rewriting of episode 1 too.

Or, do we really need to cover printing of output like this? It's not one of the learning objectives in either episode, and is rather fiddly/clumsy in MATLAB.