I know a bit about the history of Octave, and if I’m not mistaken,
several faculty have taught courses using Octave. I will be teaching a
course called Engineering Analysis in the fall, and I am thinking
about basing the course on Octave. The course is for junior level
engineers from mechanical, electrical, and related disciplines.
A few questions:
1. Is there anything published about your experience or the experience
of others in using Octave as the computational basis for a course?
There are countless books based upon MATLAB, MathCAD, etc.
2. Is the Octave documentation adequate for undergraduate engineers? I
am concerned about having the course devolve into a software tutorial,
and like most small college programs, we do not have teaching assistants.
3. Any advice as to whether (or how) I should do this?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
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