GNU Octave ROCKS!!!

Paul — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:26:34 +0000

I’ve just discovered Octave, and I have to say it ROCKS!!! How many times have you decided not to write a program to do something just because it’ll just take to long to make it worthwhile? Not anymore! I’m still learning but I’ve gone though the manual, and I had the basics down in less then an hour (yes, it really is that quick to pick up if your not new to programing).

You can do in a few lines of code what it take pages to do in C or any of the scripting languages I’ve used in the past. Don’t get me wrong though it’s no replacement for C but if you want to manipulate data quickly and easily for one time use it’s the way to go. One more tool in the belt to up that productivity

Stanford and MIT – lectures on YouTube

Paul — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:28:48 +0000

I have just discovered that both Stanford and MIT have lecture courses on youtube. I’m still a little shocked, all that learning for free(pinches self). It’s a little difficult knowing where to start, so many great courses and only a limited amount of time. Danger here, I think, is I’ll try and start too much and simply never finish anything.

From the brief look at the courses lists though, they do seem to be quite skewed in favour of the technical (with is understandable I guess given the medium). Lets hope that the balance gets restored as soon as possible…….then again thinking back I seem to remember spending far more time in lectures (Physics) then my arty brethren anyway.

Lets hope this trend continues with other universities and cources.

Paul Brunt » math

GNU Octave ROCKS!!!

Stanford and MIT – lectures on YouTube