From help-request at octave dot org Thu Apr 14 10:29:54 2005 Subject: Re: Teaching Using Octave From: Jean-Daniel BONJOUR To: "Burke, Dr. Richard" , help@octave.org Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:28:37 +0200 I'm also teaching Octave in my courses, and I've developped my own teaching material (but everything is in French) : - introduction to Octave and MATLAB : http://enacit1.epfl.ch/cours_matlab/ (some chapters, not completely finished and still in work these days like graphics, will be on-line in 1 mounth) - exercices are not (yet) on-line I'm using the Windows Octave-Forge "octave-2.1.42-windows-atlas.exe" from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2888 : very easy to install (but a little bit old), including : Octave-Forge extensions, Cygwin, gnuplot, EpsTk, ATLAS, SuperLU. Jean-Daniel Bonjour ENAC-IT/SSIE, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland > Burke, Dr. Richard wrote: >> >> I know a bit about the history of Octave, and if I’m not mistaken, >> several faculty have taught courses using Octave. I will be teaching a >> course called Engineering Analysis in the fall, and I am thinking >> about basing the course on Octave. The course is for junior level >> engineers from mechanical, electrical, and related disciplines. >> >> A few questions: >> >> 1. Is there anything published about your experience or the experience >> of others in using Octave as the computational basis for a course? >> There are countless books based upon MATLAB, MathCAD, etc. >> >> 2. Is the Octave documentation adequate for undergraduate engineers? I >> am concerned about having the course devolve into a software tutorial, >> and like most small college programs, we do not have teaching assistants. >> >> 3. Any advice as to whether (or how) I should do this? >> >> Thanks for any help you can give me. >> >> *//**/_______________________/* >> >> */Dr. Richard Burke, '72/* >> */Chairman and Professor of Engineering/* >> */Maritime College/* >> */State University of New York /* >> */6 Pennyfield Avenue/* >> */Throggs Neck, NY 10465/* >> */Voice: 718.409.7411/* >> */Fax: 718.409.7421/* ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------