Octave not only for programmers

Introduction Simple calculations

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

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

• Extracting elements from a vector, vector maths

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

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

• If else, switch, for, while

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

• Putting several graphs in one window, 3D plots, changing the viewpoint, plotting surfaces, images and movies,

• Plotting complex numbers,