You should test your installation after installing to confirm everything works.
Navigate to:
<path to CVX>/examples
and run the file simple_LP.m in MATLAB.
The file creates a small linear program (with random coefficients) and solves it. (Look through the code. It is very readable.) If all goes well, it should produce some output. The beginning of the ouptut should look like this:
Calling sedumi: 100 variables, 50 equality constraints
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SeDuMi 1.21 by AdvOL, 2005-2008 and Jos F. Sturm, 1998-2003.
Alg = 2: xz-corrector, Adaptive Step-Differentiation, theta = 0.250, beta = 0.500
Copy and paste the full-output into a text file and upload it to Stellar.
Some people have noticed that their default solver is Sdpt3 instead of SeDuMi. That's ok. Your installation is still working. We'll talk more about this in class.