Using Octave for class labs

[John B. Thoo]

Hello.

This is a general type question.  I will be teaching linear algebra in the 
spring semester and I am thinking of assigning some class labs for the first 
time.  In fact I'm thinking of using the labs from UC Davis to where some of 
our students transfer.  Their labs were written to be done in that numerical 
computation software from the Dark Side and you can find them here (listed in 
the sidebar):

<http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~daddel/Math22al/22AL_Home.html> 

Now, I'm still a novice in using Octave, so my question to y'all is, Do you 
think these UCD labs can be done using Octave easily?  If you think so, then I 
will tell the students to obtain Octave in the winter break (before the 
semester starts) and I will work on them myself during the break.  If you don't 
think so, then I may not assign any labs this time.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

---John.