Re: Octave Help Mode?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard G Riley wrote:
> Christian Herenz <herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de> writes:
>
> > David Hansen schrieb:
> >
> > > > I would contact the sysadmin at our university, but it seems that they
> > > > are playing a little bit the devils-advocate by promoting heavily
> > > > Matlab (they won't give me full points, cause I solve my exercises in
> > > > octave-code rather than with matlab (even pointing out the
> > > > differences)... really pi**** about this atm, but this NEEDS to be
> > > > discussed somewhere else (hints?))
> > > If you don't have fascist disc quota:
> > >
> > > ./configure --prefix=$HOME && make && make install
> > >
> > > David
> > That is a nice idea, but would not solve my problem that I was
> > actually forced to hand in the results with matlab, otherwise I was
> > told today by a professor my results would not be accepted. But I am
> > working on this issue right now, cause my course is called
> > "Computational Physics" not "Computational Physics with Matlab".
> >
> > Greets,
> > Christian
>
> Why on earth do you feel that your Professor should master every
> application out there that a student might feel is his right to use? Did
> it cross your mind that he does not have the skill in Octave that you
> have?

Christian, I agree with Richard. Most professors I have seen are human 
beeing with adequate limitations in their capabilities.

But you do not have to give up on using Octave for that. Can't you for 
example talk to your fellow students to see if you as a group can ask 
the institution about the possibility to use Octave instead of Mathlab? 
Then some professor might get time to learn Octave enough.

To convince them you might have to learn some Matchlab and Scilab too 
... ;-)