Re: [O] Experiences with G.Strang: Intro to Linear Algebra?

[Ada Cheng]

I have not use the book personally but any normal .m files should run with
Octave.  When I moved from Matlab to Octave the only codes I have to
modify slightly are the plots command.
Cheers,
Ada

 On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Wolfgang Lindner wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I think about using Octave to teach parts of G.Strang's: Introduction to 
> Linear
> Algebra. There is MatLAB code to implement some procedures of the book at:
> http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www
>
> Here are my questions:
> - Has someone experiences in using Octave instead of MatLAB with that book?
> - Has someone already ported (Moler's) teaching code to Octave?
>   (if that should be necessary at all, I can't foresee it at the moment,
>    because I'm a beginner in octave.)
>
> It would be nice if I could get some recommendations or some advice.
>
> Yours sincerely
> Wolfgang
>
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