Re: Teaching Using Octave

[Jean-Daniel BONJOUR]

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/*



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