RE: Teaching Using Octave

[Ryan Peterson]

I may have just what you need.  As a student I worked with David Cook at 
Lawrence University to develop a text for computational problem solving in 
undergraduate physics.  As part of my work, I adapted the introductory 
chapter of Matlab for Octave.  I think it's only shortcomings are that it 
was written at a time when N-d arrays weren't available and has no notes on 
the install.  If you're interested I can make up a postscript file of the 
chapter.

Best of luck,
Ryan Peterson

> From: "Burke, Dr. Richard" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Subject: Teaching Using Octave
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:04:45 -0500
>
>
> 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.
>
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> Maritime College
> State University of New York
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