Re: interactive octave tutorial

[Alexander Barth]

Dear all,

Thank you very much for your suggestions.

The tutorial I have seen so far are static (please correct me if I'm wrong). Maybe it would be more engaging for student if things would be interactive.

I thought a bit this morning how such things could be coded. You can look at it here:
http://gher-diva.phys.ulg.ac.be/MatlabOctaveTutorial/. For each exercise, one has to define only some tags with the questions/hint/solution and octave code (see for example http://gher-diva.phys.ulg.ac.be/MatlabOctaveTutorial/index.txt).

Jaya: thank you very much for your offer!
Maybe other people are interested to contribute octave/matlab exercises with solution.

Are there any suggestions how one could centralize contributions? Would it be ok to use the octave-forge svn server (for example the path octave-forge/doc/InteractiveTutorial) or would it be better to setup a new project?

Since some students use matlab (and since many of my colleagues use matlab), it would be great if the tutorial would use the common subset of octave and matlab syntax.

Cheers,
Alex

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Jaya <address@hidden> wrote:

How do i contribute to this?

i have tutorial materials that was prepared for personal use, but am willing to share them.

Jaya

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mar 20, 2013, at 4:52 AM, Alexander Barth wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Is anybody aware of an interactive tutorial of octave (ideally web-based)?
> I'm looking for a tutorial with the basics of octave for Master students which do not necessarily have a background in programming. Covering such things as variables, arrays, loops, if-statements and some essential octave functions.
>
> The interactive part would come from the exercises. For example students must compute the product of all numbers from 1 to 10 with octave and enter the solution in the web-page. Then the answer is compared to the right solution and an octave snippet is shown how the question can be solved.
>
> I don't think it is necessary to make the octave interpreter somehow available within the web-page. Just a web-page with some _javascript_ for correcting the exercise would be sufficient.
>
> Regards,
> Alex

There are some reasonable tutorial available on the web.

        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Octave_Programming_Tutorial

        http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Octave_Programming_Tutorial/Getting_started

        http://math.jacobs-university.de/oliver/teaching/iub/resources/octave/octave-intro/octave-intro.html

There is also a web interface for Octave.

        http://knn.mimuw.edu.pl/weboctave-project/
        http://weboctave.mimuw.edu.pl/weboctave/web/

All we need is a motivated inidividual to wrap it all together.  Maybe this could be a project for GSoC?  I'll make a proposal and CC you

Ben

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