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Octave
octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It's
used in CUED undergraduate courses and is on the MDP Resource CD. See the Introduction to Octave/MATLAB (draft, updated 2005)
- Go to http://octave.sourceforge.net/ and follow the "Octave.app for Mac OS X" link.
- Download either the "PPC" version (for old Macs with "PowerPC" chips),
or the "i386" version (for Macs with Intel chips). At the end of the
download you'll see a window like this
Drag the "Octave" icon onto the "Applications" icon.
- To use graphics you'll also need the Gnuplot program. Click on the
"Extras" icon, then on the "Gnuplot" icon, and follow the instructions to install it (they're similar to the instructions for installing "Octave". Install both programs in the same place)
Install the latest stable release of Octave by following the instructions at
http://octave.sourceforge.net/. The
installer will ask you a number of questions: in each case, the default answer
is fine. You might also want to install the SciTE text editor
for writing Octave .m files. Alternatively, you could use one of the default
Windows text editors, but beware their tendency to save text files with the
extension .txt, you will need to change this to .m for Octave programs. (by Andrew Gee)
