Re: Roadmap to 3.8.N

[Israel Herraiz]

Excerpts from Daniel Carrera's message of Thu Nov 08 17:14:49 +0100 2012:
> I have been using Octave for simple work for a number of years. I have now
> begun teaching the MATLAB portion of an astronomy course at my university
> (Lund University). The students can do the exercises in any programming
> language they want, but we *teach* MATLAB, so there is naturally a strong
> pull toward MATLAB. I am not the official in charge of the course, but I
> have been giving some thought to how we could replace MATLAB by a Free
> Software alternative. So you can imagine how excited I got when I realized
> that Octave 3.8 will have a GUI.

I am in the same situation, and I have a customized Octave version for
my classes, which is prepared to be as MATLAB compatible as possible
(using all the Octave configuration options that will make it more
similar to MATLAB). I use this software to teach in a course that is
totally MATLAB oriented (I teach a subgroup of all the course, using
Octave).

For the moment, I have everything in Spanish at this location:
http://mat.caminos.upm.es/octave/ (I will translate everything into
English some day, hopefully you will understand in any case:)

There are packages available for Windows and some GNU/Linux
distributions.

The GNU/Linux GUI is in English by default. The Windows version is in
Spanish by default, If after installation, you remove the "languages"
directory inside the "bin" directory, the program will be in English.

I am preparing a next release where you can choose the language
anyways.

If you use this customized version for your teaching, please let me
know!

Cheers,
Israel