Introduction to Octave

A quick practical hands-on tutorial for learning the Octave programming package
Includes sample code examples throughout this learn-by-doing book
Octave is a free, open-source alternative to the popular MATLAB package

Autorentext
Sandeep Nagar, Ph.D. teaches and consults on the use of Octave, MATLAB and other open source programming languages for for data science/analysis and numerical computing for engineering and science applications. In addition to teaching at universities, he frequently gives workshops covering open source software. Sandeep has a Ph.D. in Material Science from KTH, Sweden in May 2012. Prior to that degree, he obtained a M.Sc. in Physics with specialization in Electronics and Radio Physics and a B.Sc.B.Ed degrees in India.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to Octave.- 2. Interactive Octave Sessions.- 3. Mathematical Expressions.- 4. Working with Arrays.- 5. Array Properties.- 6. Plotting7. Data Through File Reading and Writing.- 8. Functions and Loops.- 9. Numerical Computing Formalism.