GNU Octave Beginner's Guide

by Hansen, Jesper Schmidt

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Become a proficient Octave user by learning this high-level scientific numerical tool from the ground up.

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :GNU Octave Beginner's Guide.

Summary

Become a proficient Octave user by learning this high-level scientific numerical tool from the ground up.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Packt Publishing
Place of Publication:Birmingham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

Notes

Multiple figure windows.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (280 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1849513325, 9781849513326
oclc:ocn994403201
LC Classification:QA297
Dewey Decimal:005.55

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:Introducing GNU Octave; So what is GNU Octave?; Applications; Limitations of Octave; Octave and MATLAB; The Octave community; Installing Octave; Windows; GNU/Linux; Building Octave from the source under GNU/Linux; Time for action -- building Octave from source; Checking your installation with peaks; Time for action -- testing with peaks; Customizing Octave; Time for action -- creating an Octave home directory under Windows.; Creating your first .octaverc file.

Time for action -- editing the .octaverc fileMore on .octaverc; Installing additional packages; Time for action -- installing additional packages; Uninstalling a package; Getting help; The behaviour of the Octave command prompt; Summary; Chapter 2:Interacting with Octave: Variables and Operators; Simple numerical variables; Accessing and changing array elements; More examples; Time for action -- manipulating arrays; Complex variables; Text variables; Higher-dimensional arrays; Structures and cell arrays; Structures; Time for action -- instantiating a structure; Accessing structure fields.

Cell arraysTim…

Subjects