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GNU Octave Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   GNU Octave Beginner's Guide Become a proficient Octave user by learning this high-level scientific numerical tool from the ground up

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Published in Jun 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849513326
Length 280 pages
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Jesper Schmidt Hansen holds a Ph.D. in soft-material science and is currently doing research in the field of nanofluidics and dynamics at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has been using GNU Octave on a daily basis for many years, both as a student and later as a researcher. The applications have varied from solving partial and ordinary differential equations, simple data plotting, and data generation for other applications, to dynamical system investigations and advanced data analysis.
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GNU Octave
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Introducing GNU Octave FREE CHAPTER 2. Interacting with Octave: Variables and Operators 3. Working with Octave: Functions and Plotting 4. Rationalizing: Octave Scripts 5. Extensions: Write Your Own Octave Functions 6. Making Your Own Package: A Poisson Equation Solver 7. More Examples: Data Analysis 8. Need for Speed: Optimization and Dynamically Linked Functions Pop quiz - Answers

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned the following:

  • About Octave, it's strengths, and weaknesses.

  • How to install Octave on Windows and GNU/Linux.

  • To test your installation with peaks.

  • How to use and change the default editor.

  • To customized Octave. For example, we saw how to change the prompt appearance and how to add search paths.

  • To use the pkg command to install and remove additional packages.

  • About the help utility.

We are now ready to move on and learn the basics about Octave's data types and operators.

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Jesper Schmidt Hansen holds a Ph.D. in soft-material science and is currently doing research in the field of nanofluidics and dynamics at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has been using GNU Octave on a daily basis for many years, both as a student and later as a researcher. The applications have varied from solving partial and ordinary differential equations, simple data plotting, and data generation for other applications, to dynamical system investigations and advanced data analysis.
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