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Sudeepam
Joined 11 March 2018
→O: Only out of interest
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:: -Yes I have heard about Octave before. I heard about Octave about an year ago when my college coursework required me to code assignments in MATLAB but I decided to search for an open source alternative. | :: -Yes I have heard about Octave before. I heard about Octave about an year ago when my college coursework required me to code assignments in MATLAB but I decided to search for an open source alternative. | ||
** If not, where would you expect or advise us to do advertising? | ** If not, where would you expect or advise us to do advertising? | ||
:: -I have heard about Octave but I really would like to suggest the Octave community to advertise their software among college students like me who require to use MATLAB or a similar tool for their coursework. I am doing something like that already, owing to my love for open source and free software, I have been trying to persuade my teachers to make use of Octave on our college systems and ask the students to use Octave more. | :: -I have heard about Octave but I really would like to suggest the Octave community to advertise their software among college students like me, who require to use MATLAB or a similar tool for their coursework. This is because, I personally believe that every student should be introduced to the world of Open Source. I am doing something like that already, owing to my love for open source and free software, I have been trying to persuade my teachers to make use of Octave on our college systems and ask the students to use Octave more. | ||
* What was the first question concerning Octave you could not find an answer to rather quickly? | * What was the first question concerning Octave you could not find an answer to rather quickly? | ||
:: -I got most of my questions answered online or on the IRC channel itself. I haven't really encountered a situation when my question was not answered. | :: -I got most of my questions answered online or on the IRC channel itself. This may be a negative, but I keep asking till I have an answer so I haven't really encountered a situation when my question was not answered. | ||
== P: Prerequisites == | == P: Prerequisites == | ||