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I normally just refer to MATLAB documentation (either from Mathworks, who publish it, or from third parties).

Regarding a good reference on Octave commands, I can’t really suggest one.

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We have MATLAB on all our School PCs, but I always encourage my students to install Octave on their own laptops and use it as their desktop calculator so that they can get plenty of practice with MATLAB syntax while they’re working on problems in other subjects. Thanks Walter, I’m glad you found the instructions useful.

The clc command clears the command window.

” leaves the current folder and returns you to the one that contains it. move to a different folder inside the one you’re in.

The cd command is used to “change directory” – i.e.

If you’re trying to run an M-file, pwd should display the name of the folder that contains your M-file.

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the full path of the folder you’re currently in.

The pwd command displays the “present working directory” – i.e.

In the final screen shot above, you can see some useful commands for moving between different folders. Once I saved my M-file, I ran it in the Octave command window as shown below: Here’s an example of writing an M-file in Notepad++: Notepad++ is an incredibly useful text editor which can be used for all kinds of programming tasks (editing M-files is just one thing it’s good at).

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The one I strongly recommend is Notepad++ which is free to download from. However, you’ll need to use an external text editor. Just like in MATLAB, a sequence of commands can be stored in an M-file. In the following example, I’ll create an array of time values, use it to generate a sinusoidal function, and then plot the sinusoid in a figure window. However, we can type the same commands in Octave that we would use in MATLAB. Here’s how it looks when I open it on my laptop.Īs you can see, it looks very different from MATLAB. Double click on the desktop shortcut to start it up. Now just click OK and you’re ready to start using Octave. Assuming you installed Octave in the default location (“C:\Software\Octave-3.6.4\”), the complete Target line will be as follows: C:\Software\Octave-3.6.4\bin\octave-3.6.4.exe -i -line-editing Add the text "-i -line-editing" to the end of the Target field.

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As a workaround for a gnulib Windows 8 compatibility bug, you need to add some command line switches to the octave.exe desktop shortcut: Right click the Octave desktop shortcut and click on “Properties”. If so, you just need to do one small fix on the newly installed Octave to get things working. If you’re running Windows 8, you’ll probably run into the same problem I did when I first ran Octave – the command prompt was missing from the command window, as shown below: Now just wait while the installation takes place… Run the installer and accept the default installation location (C:\software\Octave-3.6.4\) and other default options, as shown in the following sequence of screen shots:

The exact file to download is “Octave 3.6.4 for Windows Microsoft Visual Studio” which is one of the versions provided on Octave Forge. I don’t have MATLAB installed on my laptop at all anymore – I just use Octave. I can’t help wondering whether 9 out of every 10 people who go looking for Octave end up abandoning the idea because they’re not quite sure which version to try.įortunately, once you know what to do, installing Octave on Windows is fast and straightforward and really is worth the effort. Personally, I think it would be really great if the correct download link was given pride of place on the Octave home page. Visitors to the Octave home page need to do a bit of detective work to find their way to the correct binary executable installer for Windows.

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Unfortunately, it’s not immediately obvious how to install Octave on Windows. Provided that you steer clear of non-compatible toolboxes, your Octave M-files should run fine in MATLAB.

There are other free alternatives, like Scilab and FreeMat, but Octave seems to be the one that’s most consistent with MATLAB. This is where Octave comes in – it’s basically an open source implementation of the MATLAB language. The main problem with MATLAB is that its a proprietary platform and even the student version comes with a hefty price tag.

MATLAB’s notation for manipulating arrays is wonderfully concise and the ability to visualise data sets at the drop of a hat using its graphing tools really helps the creative process. Even for a dyed in the wool C programmer like me, it’s really useful to sketch out algorithms in MATLAB before implementing them in C. MATLAB power users sometimes talk about it feeling almost like an extension of their brain. MATLAB is an incredibly powerful tool for engineers, not just for number crunching solutions to specific problems, but as an aid to creativity.