[Blindmath] Octave

[Giulio Berretta]

On 25/04/2012 22:42, Jonathan Godfrey wrote:
> Hi Dick,
>
> Octave was introduced as an alternative to MATLAB at the 2011 Summer 
> University in the Czech Republic. I gather that workshop was run in 
> the previous year as well.
>
> My, and other similar universities, will not use Octave in preference 
> to MATLAB as the engineers use functionality that is not currently 
> available in Octave. This limits its usefulness as substitute software 
> for the less accessible MATLAB.
>
> I think that Octave is certainly a tool that should be included in the 
> list of freeware any intending mathematics student should be acquiring 
> prior to heading to university. I put it on the list with Maxima, not 
> far behind R (OK, a fair way behind, but certainly a great option).
>
> I'm not sure about calling it a teaching tool, unless you would call 
> other software a teaching tool. Certainly a very useful calculator 
> especially for vector and matrix based problems.
>
> I think Maxima offers a better solution for anyone wanting to do 
> calculations in differential calculus from an access point of view.
>
> I can't comment on the graphing capability of either Octave or MATLAB 
> as I always use R for anything graphical.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> At 05:13 a.m. 26/04/2012, you wrote:
>> I recently became aware of an interactive programming environment named
>> Octave, which is apparently a free open-source alternative to matlab.
>>
>> It contains many powerful functions, particularly in the area of linear
>> algebra, matrix algebra, etc.
>>
>> It also makes it possible to easily create graphs, which could 
>> probably be
>> sonified using the voice software.
>>
>> It seems to work well with NVDA with the ''all punctuation' 
>> preference set.
>>
>> I was wondering if it has been considered as a tool for teaching math to
>> blind and VI students.
>>
>> Dick Baldwin
>>
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Interecsting...

However, Matlab sims accessible via voice over running on mac osx
 
 
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