Re: Octave in Universities

[David Bateman]

Matt Taylor wrote:

>>
>> On 14-Mar-2006, Guillem Borrell Nogueras wrote:
>>
>> | -  No GUI (They are *not* used to the command line so they try to
>> avoid it as | much as possible)
>>
>> In connection with Octave/Matlab, this issue always amuses me because
>> even with the Matlab GUI, I don't think you can really do much of
>> anything without typing a command at the command line prompt that (at
>> least by default) is in a frame that occupies the greatest portion of
>> the GUI window.  So, when people are saying that they can't live
>> without a GUI, they are really asking for a command line window with a
>> few decorations to give them a warm and fuzzy feeling (ah, the
>> familiar "Edit" button).  Oh, and a "print" button on the plot window.
>>
>> jwe
>>   
>
>
>
> I have been using Octave almost exclusively.  But when I really get
> stuck, trying to debug some complex code, I use Matlab's graphical
> debugging mode to find my problem.  It is very convenient to be able
> to step through the code and evaluate individual expressions/check
> variable values.
>
> Matt
>
Octave has an inbuilt debugger. Check the keyboard command and the
debug_on_error variable.

D.


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