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- Session 1: Scilab Environment Tue, 2011-05-24 19:58
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- Session 2: Scilab as an interactive calculator Sat, 2011-05-21 22:06
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What do you use/intend to use Scilab for?
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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?
- How many numerical computation tools do you know, out of the following: Matlab, GNU Octave, FreeMat, Python (with numpy, scipy and matplotlib packages), Sage
- Which programming languages do you know, out of the following: Fortran, C, C++, Java? Can you categorize your experience in those as novice, intermediate and expert?
To get the forum discussion started, here are my answers to those questions:
- I use Scilab to solve problems in Matrix Structural Analysis and Structural Optimization, although I have only recently begun working on optimization problems.
- I know Matlab, GNU Octave and FreeMat, the three of them being almost identical. I am beginning to learn Python and family. I haven't used Sage, but I hear great things about it.
- I know Fortran (expert), C and C++ (intermediate - Class hierarchies, Templates) and Java (novice).
1- I think I can use Scilab to solve systems, approximation and optimization problems.
2- In past, I only use SAGE... but only for graphs.
3- I only programming in C/C++ until 2000. Since that, I didn't programming any of those languages.
Joaquim
1. I'm interested Scilab, since it is a Free Software. I am also interested in comparing its performance with my simulations in optical scattering in Mathematica.
2. Of the following list I don't know any, except Matlab which I used a long time ago for a short period.
3. Fortran (never programmed), C/C++ (intermediate), Java (novice)
I'm interested in learning it also because:
1)I'm an Engineering major
2) I like learning new things
3) I have Matlab 2010 and have no clue how to use it
I am the user of linux and appreciate open souce programs. It is not because it is free but the sharing of information. I have significant interest in programming.
I am interested in Scilab as:
1) being chemist, I can use and optimize performance and skills using this software.
Hopefully, I can contribute someday for open souce community.
2) I have used Mathematica, Matlab and Maple. I would like to learn about scilab and use scilab.
3) I know about python, Java and C/C++. I would think myself as somehow intermediate or so on these languages.