below there is a task we were asked to do using matlab. I wrote this function below which works fine. But, since 'for' loops were not shown yet in the course, I think that the instructor meant doing it without loops. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Given $m$, $n$ you can assign
$A(1:2:m,1:2:n)=1;$
$A(2:2:m,2:2:n)=1;$
P.S. Loops in MATLAB are in general slow, substitute it if possible by vector/matrix operations that MATLAB is optimized for.