Octave not only for programmers Training Course

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

More graphs

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

 Eigenvectors and the Singular Value Decomposition

 Complex numbers

• Plotting complex numbers,

 Statistics and data processing

 GUI Development