This training programme is dedicated for those who would like to know an open source (free) alternative program to the commercial MATLAB package. The two-day training provides comprehensive information on installation of Octave in Windows/ Linux oprating Systems  and performing the OCTAVE package for scientific/ engineering calculations. The training recipients are beginners but also those who know the program and would like to systematize their knowledge and improve their skills. Knowledge of other programming languages is not required, but it will greatly facilitate the learners’ acquisition of knowledge. The course will show you how to use the program in many practical examples.

Course Outline

Introduction

Simple calculations

• Starting Octave, Octave as a calculator, built-in functions

The Octave environment

• Named variables, numbers and formatting, number representation and accuracy, loading and saving data 

Arrays and vectors

• Extracting elements from a vector, vector maths

Plotting graphs

• Improving the presentation, multiple graphs and figures, saving and printing figures

Octave programming I: Script files

• Creating and editing a script, running and debugging scripts,

Control statements

• If else, switch, for, while

Octave programming II: Functions

Matrices and vectors

• Matrix, the transpose operator, matrix creation functions, building composite matrices, matrices as tables, extracting bits of matrices, basic matrix functions

Linear and Nonlinear Equations

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