Re: Who and where is using octave?

[P.J.G. Long]

On Jan 19 2008, Peter A. Gustafson wrote:

Although MATLAB is still used for most of the research we use Octave for 
teaching in years 1 and 2. We also supply it on a live CD, together with a 
large number of other software and free/opensource text books etc.

 Regards

> On Saturday 19 January 2008 12:23:48 pm Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
> > I teach a  course of numerical methods with octave given at
> >  o Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1  (UJF)
> >  o Polytech  Grenoble
> >
> > Some colleagues give a similar course at
> >  o École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
> >
> > we also use octave daily as a replacement for matlab (we don't use any
> > matlab toolboxes)
>
> I use it daily for my data analysis in my research (composite 
> structures). I also encourage its use in a course on measurement and 
> instrumentation at the University of Michigan.
>
> Matlab is primary, since the bulk of the students choose windows and the 
> computer labs only have octave (2.9.13) on the linux side of a dual boot 
> setup. However I have sold a few on installing octave on their own 
> machines.
>
> This seems to come up fairly regularly... I think we should wikify this 
> topic. Then we could just reference others to a specific website.
>
> Pete Gustafson
>
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