Re: Octave Set Up For Beginngers

[Laurent Hoeltgen]

On 02/10/12 03:24, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:59 PM, injoi <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > It turns out that the Octave for Beginners free download was only until
> > september 30...seems i just missed it. Is the wiki.octave sufficient or do
> > you guys recommend me to just fess up and buy it?
> there are a number of resources out there for both Matlab and Octave.
> Without the GUI, Octave very closely resembles the version of Matlab I
> started with (v6 maybe?), so there is a large number of tutorials and
> guides out there that will apply to Octave.
>
> This page has a number of pdf tutorials that work for either program:
> http://www.math.ubc.ca/~warcode/matlab/
>
> Here's another decent tutorial
> http://krchowdhary.com/research-meth/octave-matlab-tut.pdf
>
> actually, that guy has a list of a few good things at the bottom of this
> page:
> http://krchowdhary.com/research-meth/research-meth-sc.html
>
> If you find those and google searching on your own prove insufficient, then
> you may want to pick up the ebook.
>
> Nick J
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:59 PM, injoi <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     It turns out that the Octave for Beginners free download was only until
>     september 30...seems i just missed it. Is the wiki.octave sufficient
>     or do
>     you guys recommend me to just fess up and buy it?
>
>
> there are a number of resources out there for both Matlab and Octave.
> Without the GUI, Octave very closely resembles the version of Matlab I
> started with (v6 maybe?), so there is a large number of tutorials and
> guides out there that will apply to Octave.
>
> This page has a number of pdf tutorials that work for either program:
> http://www.math.ubc.ca/~warcode/matlab/
>
> Here's another decent tutorial
> http://krchowdhary.com/research-meth/octave-matlab-tut.pdf
>
> actually, that guy has a list of a few good things at the bottom of this
> page:
> http://krchowdhary.com/research-meth/research-meth-sc.html
>
> If you find those and google searching on your own prove insufficient,
> then you may want to pick up the ebook.
>
> Nick J
>
>
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Hi,

also note that octave comes with an extensive documentation that can be 
accessed through the command line prompt. Just try for example:

help plot

or

doc plot

Regards,
Laurent