RE: FW: Octave Lectures On EdX Coursera Etc

[John Guin]

This class on courser uses Octave:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning.  It is now a self paced
class.  I took the second offering of it a few years ago - Andrew Ng was
terrific.  Octave was just sort of incidental, though.  Since the challenge
of converting linear algebra formulas to code is pretty low with Octave,
this made the class very focused on algorithms rather than implementation.
You only learned enough Octave to get through the class - nothing in depth.

It is probably the most "famous" class offered.  The initial class had 100K
enrollees, with about 4000 passing, IIRC.  This caused a lot of articles
written for the high participation and high drop out rate for these types of
classes.



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Subject: Re: FW: Octave Lectures On EdX Coursera Etc

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:10 PM, burak omer saracoglu
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear Juan;
> Please find my approach as
> Lectures On
> 1-) Installing Octave on Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, etc.)
> 2-) Basic Arithmetic Operations on Octave
> 3-) Vectors on Octave
> 4-) Matrix Computations on Octave
> 5-) Installing Packages on Octave
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> 8-) Write if-else expressions
> 9-) Write loops
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> Have a nice day
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> Burak
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> PhD in Graduate School of Science Engineering and Technology MSc in 
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> ________________________________
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Octave Lectures On EdX Coursera Etc
> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 06:46:51 +0000
>
> Dear Juan;
> I will have a look at the coursess on C#, Java, Phyton and R amd make 
> a list of the topics for Octave.
> Have a nice day
> ALl my best
> Burak
>
> Dr. Burak Omer Saracoglu
> PhD in Graduate School of Science Engineering and Technology MSc in 
> Industrial Engineering BSc in Naval Architecture and Marine 
> Engineering
>
> Visit Frontiers (Publications)
> http://www.frontiersin.org/people/BurakSaracoglu/104045/publications
> Visit ResearcherID (Publications)
> http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-5621-2013
> Visit ResearchGate (Publications)
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Burak_Saracoglu
>
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:32:11 +0100
>> Subject: Re: Octave Lectures On EdX Coursera Etc
>> From: address@hidden
>> To: address@hidden
>> CC: address@hidden
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:21 PM, burak omer saracoglu 
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Dear Octave Specialists;
>> > I can not find any Octave Lectures or Courses like the courses in 
>> > several topics on EdX or Coursera etc.
>> > I also can not find any course on Youtube etc.
>> > I do think that if the Octave courses will be prepared and 
>> > presented on EdX and Coursera and Youtube, not only the students 
>> > will learn the Octave but also the researchers will gather help and 
>> > increase their knowhow.
>> > For instance
>> > A course by Octave Markowsky and Segee for Fuzzy Logic Toolkit 
>> > Markowsky, L., Segee, B., (2011). The Octave Fuzzy Logic Toolkit, 
>> > Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Open-Source 
>> > Software for Scientific Computation (OSSC-2011), 118-125.
>> > etc etc.
>> > I hope that there will be Octave Courses which I will also attend 
>> > and follow.
>> > Have a nice day
>> > Best Regards
>> >
>> > Dr. Burak Omer Saracoglu
>> > PhD in Graduate School of Science Engineering and Technology MSc in 
>> > Industrial Engineering BSc in Naval Architecture and Marine 
>> > Engineering
>> >
>> > Visit Frontiers (Publications)
>> > http://www.frontiersin.org/people/BurakSaracoglu/104045/publication
>> > s
>> > Visit ResearcherID (Publications)
>> > http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-5621-2013
>> > Visit ResearchGate (Publications)
>> > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Burak_Saracoglu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Maybe you can suggest a list of topics the tutorials should cover.
>> It is not always easy to spot what people need to start from the 
>> point of an experienced user.

Please always keep the mailing list in copy.

What you describe is basically the manual of Octave
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/

I thought you were aiming at sometihng more hands-on.

I think it is better to make a tutorial project, i.e. an engaging task for
the students/reader and provide the "theoretical" stuff as it is needed.

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