Re: Matlab quirks

[Miguel Bazdresch]

On 03/27/2012 12:19 AM, ahowe42 wrote:
> Miguel
>
> Your comments about students converting from MATLAB to octave are
> interesting.  I have an acquaintance on the Mathworks development team, and
> recently asked him about the challenge from octave.  He basically said it
> wasn't a concern.  In general, how many students a year would you say you
> see convert to octave?

I wish I could have Stanford's reach... in courses I personally teach, 
or in courses I'm responsible for, I have about 90 students a year. As I 
said before, I estimate that some 80% of them prefer Octave to Matlab by 
the time the courses are over.

By the way, last year I presented a poster at the IEEE Signal Processing 
Education Workshop, and I was surprised at how many teachers there were 
supportive of open source in general and Octave in particular.

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Miguel Bazdresch