![]() Octave was reviewed in the in the July, 1997 issue of the Linux Journal.Ĭlearly, Octave is now much more than just another courseware package with limited utility beyond the classroom. Since then, Octave has been through several major revisions, is included with Debian GNU/Linux, openSUSE, and many other GNU/Linux distributions. The first alpha release was January 4, 1993, and version 1.0 was released February 17, We believed that with an interactive environment like Octave, most students would be able to pick up the basics quickly, and begin using it confidently in just a few hours.įull-time development began in the Spring of 1992. There were still some people who said that we should just be using Fortran instead, because it is the computer language of engineering, but every time we had tried that, the students spent far too much time trying to figure out why their Fortran code failed and not enough time learning about chemical engineering. Later, after seeing the limitations of that approach, we opted to attempt to build a much more flexible tool. We originally envisioned some very specialized tools for the solution of chemical reactor design problems. Rawlings of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and John G. Octave was originally conceived (in about 1988) to be companion software for an undergraduate-level textbook on chemical reactor design being written by James B. 8.2.2.3 Web-based user interfaces (WUI).8.2 Numerical packages and libraries interfacing with GNU Octave.4.1 Command and variable name completion.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |