MATLAB

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w:MATLAB is a numerical computing environment and programming language.

w:GNU Octave is a free MATLAB clone that you can download^[1] You can write Octave with Notepad++, which is a free text editor you can download.^[2] Notepad++ allows you write code for a large variety of programs, including MATLAB (which they call MATrix LABoratory) If you are accustomed to Windows and GUIs, the batch programming associated with GNU Octave will seem strange. But it will teach you a little DOS and make you a better programmer.

w:Mathematica is an entirely different program, which like MATLAB is available commercially. Mathematica is the 'king' of symbolic manipulation, far better than MATLAB. Also, Mathematica sponsors an online free symbolic integrator that integrates functions that the MATLAB integrator fails to integrate. (Sadly, the free online Mathematica integrator fails to do definite integrals.)

Python is general-purpose, high-level language with code designed to be easily read. It is free software and appears to be quite popular.^[3]

Wikiversity resources to help you learn and use MATLAB

Getting started will guide (and link) you through the MathWorks tutorial^[4].
- It is also worth glancing at Top 10 Do's, Don'ts, and How Tos (sic)
The MATLAB Cookbook contains snippets of useable code that you can copy/paste/modify
MATLAB essential, which is a course aimed at college-level students

Wikiversity MATLAB projects

Engineering thermodynamics is an ongoing effort to create tables and graphs for Engineering thermodynamics
Divergent series investigations is advanced and weird -- physics at its best (or worst!)
- See also Divergent series and Casimir effect in one dimension and Quantum field theory on a violin string.
Sound/Just and equal tuning
- Bach Prelude Cello Suite #1 ***Well tempered clavier: 0:06, 1:19, 2:33, 4:44
- Sound/Emergence of beats (in progress)

Writing wikiquizzes

Wikiquiz writer (MATLAB) can be used to write a randomized testbank for a quiz that involves numerical answers.

MATLAB/Octave

MATLAB/Octave tells you how to install Octave on a Windows machine. Use it if you do not have ready access to MATLAB, or use it instead of MATLAB just for fun.^[5] Also, it is possible to write a wikiquiz with testbank using Octave. See for example this Physics quiz.

http://wiki.octave.org/Main_Page
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/index.html#SEC_Contents
If you use GNU Octave, a few UNIX-like commands are needed when working in the shell:

Footnotes

↑ GNU Octave is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/'''. If you have Windows you need to look at http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Windows''' and download Octave from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/octave/files/Octave%20Windows%20binaries/'''
↑ Notepad++ can be downloaded at http://notepad-plus-plus.org/'''
↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Python_(programming_language)&oldid=636392303 Your teachers are right not to let you reference Wikipedia/Wikiersity. If you know of a more reliable source become an editor and pitch in!
↑ The MATLAB tutorial be found at http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/getting-started-with-matlab.html.
↑ Keep in mind that Octave cannot do everything that MATLAB can do.

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