Re: Teaching Using Octave

[Y U Sasidhar]

Victor Munoz wrote:


> I don't know if this is going to help or not. 
>
> A colleague and I have made a course for physics students, where we teach
> them several tools (TeX, Octave, C++, bash programming), and then we expect
> them to work on numerical problems in mathematics and physics (mainly solve
> differential equations, but we've also had them play with chaotic maps,
> cellular automata, etc.). We wrote a book for the course, and I wrote the
> Octave chapter. Bad news: it is in Spanish. Besides, we don't regard the
> book as "finished", as we consider revisions everytime we make the
> course again. 
>
> If someone wants to take a look at it, it's at
>
> http://aristoteles.ciencias.uchile.cl/homepage/cursos/mfm0/mfm0.pdf
>
> The Octave chapter is number 4. If someone thinks it would be interesting to
> have something like that available in English, we could work on translate
> it, unless there's an interested soul out there. The Octave chapter is very
> simple, only to introduce basic functionality and capability --later in the
> course (and in the book), we propose numerical problems which the students
> attack with the tools learned so far-- but maybe it can help as a first
> reference.
>
> Regards,
From whatever I could make out from the contents, you are 
discussing numerical methods too and introduced programmimg 
principles using c++.
I think that for a first programming introduction octave is 
great; I would use that ( used also ) to intoduce loops etc.
THerefore I feel numerical principles plus octave plus basic 
unix will be a good combination for a text. Most of it is 
there in your book except that your book uses c++ to 
introduce programming.
regards,

--
 Sasidhar




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