Octave Tutorial

GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted Scientific Programming Language, primarily intended for numerical and scientific computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. Octave is much similar to MATLAB.

 

GNU Octave GUI on Windows10

 

Octave can be used through its interactive command-line interface. We can also write non-interactive programs and scripts. Most Octave programs are easily portable.

Octave provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulations. It has a powerful mathematics-oriented syntax with built-in 2D/3D plotting and visualization tools.

Octave is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave’s own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C/C++, Fortran, etc.

Install Octave

Octave is made available under the GNU General Public License. It may be freely copied and used.

Octave is cross-platform and runs under most Unix/Linux operating systems, Microsoft Windows, etc.

  • GNU/Linux
  • Windows
  • Mac OS

Windows

https://www.testingdocs.com/install-gnu-octave-on-windows/

Ubuntu

Steps to install Octave on Ubuntu Linux:

https://www.testingdocs.com/install-octave-on-ubuntu-linux/

Launch Octave

Learn how to start Octave on Windows operating system.

https://www.testingdocs.com/run-octave-on-windows/

Octave Components

An overview of the Octave components and windows.

https://www.testingdocs.com/gnu-octave-components/

Hello World using Octave

https://www.testingdocs.com/hello-world-in-octave/

Declare Variables

https://www.testingdocs.com/declare-variables-in-octave/

Input & Output

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-input-and-output/

Comments

https://www.testingdocs.com/comments-in-octave-scripts/

Operators

Arithmetic Operators

https://www.testingdocs.com/basic-octave-arithmetic-operators/

Comparison Operators

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-comparison-operators/

Increment & Decrement Operators

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-increment-decrement-operators/

If statement

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-if-statement/

Loops

While Loop

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-while-statement/

For Loop

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-for-statement/

Break statement

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-break-statement/

Continue statement

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-continue-statement/

Plotting

Octave Plot command

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-plot-command/

2D Plots

https://www.testingdocs.com/two-dimensional-plot-using-octave/

Simple Plot

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-simple-plot-example-of-function-yx2/

3D Plots

https://www.testingdocs.com/three-dimensional-plots-using-octave/

Built-in Functions

Octave built-in mathematical functions:

https://www.testingdocs.com/octave-built-in-functions/

User-defined Function

Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations.

https://www.testingdocs.com/user-defined-function-in-octave/

Function Handle

https://www.testingdocs.com/using-function-handle-in-octave/

Official Website

For more information on Octave, visit the official website:

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index