Re: Octave in Universities

[Ronald Crummett]

I feel like I am living proof of what Quentin has said.  I am working 
on my MSEE right now and was introduced to Matlab in a third-year 
signal processing course.  I thought it would be nice to work on my 
home computer if possible and ended up buying the student version 
later, only to find that features such as the Signal Processing 
Toolbox were available at additional cost.  I discovered Octave on my 
own when I started using Linux and with some struggles (I liked to 
print plots by clicking on the printer button in Matlab) feel just as 
comfortable with it as I do Matlab.  But never have I heard any of my 
professors mention Octave as a viable alternative to Matlab.  I don't 
think a lot of them know it is out there.

-Ron


----- Original Message -----
From: Quentin Spencer <address@hidden>
Date: Friday, March 10, 2006 8:45 am
Subject: Re: Octave in Universities
To: address@hidden
Cc: Larry Blodgett <address@hidden>, list octave <address@hidden>

> Steve C. Thompson wrote:
> 
> >On 10 Mar 06 08:02AM, Larry Blodgett wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I was under the impression that there were numerous
> >>universities using octave.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I use GNU Octave here at the University of California,
> >San Diego!  From my thesis, page 211:
> >
> >  ``All numerical work, including the computer simulations, was
> >  done with GNU Octave.''
> >
> >Steve
> >  
> >
> 
> I also did my entire thesis using octave, but I was one of the few 
> people (despite my best efforts) in my department who even knew 
> about 
> octave. In my field (electrical engineering), most students are 
> introduced to Matlab in an undergraduate course on signal 
> processing. If 
> professors were informed about octave, they could promote octave 
> as an 
> alternative--particularly to students who want to do work on their 
> own 
> computers without buying the crippled "student edition" of Matlab.
> 
> -Quentin
> 
> 
> 
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