P2PU Archive - General discussion

Session 0: History, Features and Applications of Scilab

Satish Annigeri — Sun, 22 May 2011 06:19:15 +0000

This is the forum topic dedicated to Session 0: History, Features and Applications of Scilab.

Getting Started with Scilab

Session 4: Creating Matrices and Some Simple Matrix Operations

Satish Annigeri — Sat, 21 May 2011 20:05:45 +0000

This forum topic is dedicated to discussion related to the contents of Session 4: Creating matrices and some simple matrix operations

Getting Started with Scilab

Session 3: Workspace and Current Working Directory

Satish Annigeri — Sat, 21 May 2011 20:04:50 +0000

This forum topic is dedicated to discussion related to the contents of Session 3: Workspace and Current Working Directory

Getting Started with Scilab

Session 2: Scilab as an interactive calculator

Satish Annigeri — Sat, 21 May 2011 20:02:46 +0000

This forum topic is dedicated to discussion related to the contents of Session 2: Scilab as an interactive calculator

Getting Started with Scilab

Session 1: Scilab Environment

Satish Annigeri — Sat, 21 May 2011 20:01:43 +0000

This forum topic is dedicated to discussion related to the contents of Session 1: Scilab Environment. Please air your views, ask your questions, point out errors/typos/ambiguities/shortcomings in the course content. At the same time, reply to the queries of others or contribute your thoughts on points raised by others. This will become a repository of experiences over time, and when experiences are filtered through your logical brain, will lead to discovery and learning.

Getting Started with Scilab

Merits and demerits of a numerical computation tool like Scilab

Satish Annigeri — Tue, 10 May 2011 11:20:52 +0000

Problems that are solved using a numerical computation tool such as Scilab/GNU Octave/Matlab/Python and firends were traditionally solved using programming languages such as Fortran and later on C/C++. In fact, the motivation for developing Matlab was to serve as a wrapper over well established Fortran numerical computation libraries such BLAS, LAPACK. What is your view or experience on the merits and demerits of using such tools in place of traditional programming languages?

Getting Started with Scilab

What do you use/intend to use Scilab for?

Satish Annigeri — Tue, 10 May 2011 11:08:06 +0000

Scilab is a numerical tool primarily for matrix computations. A large number of problems from a variety of science and engineering fields use matrix numeric computations. It would be interesting to know what problem(s) you are solving/intend to solve using Scilab. This will help me understand your motivation for joining the course.

It would be great if you could answer the following questions:

What problems are you solving/intend to solve using Scilab?

Getting Started with Scilab