Scilab for Real Dummies

Why I did it
the way I did it
As a grad student at KU in 1990-91, I needed to quickly learn MathCAD
or Matlab. A fellow student showed me MathCAD basics in 15 minutes
with the use of a sine function. The lecture went something like this:
• “First you declare the variables that you need”
• “Then you define the function that you want to plot”
• “After that you write the plot commands”
With that teaching I got started and was able to use MathCAD for my
MS thesis.
Lessons learned: Show examples and skip the academic trivia.
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I am deeply grateful to Jim for his lesson. We’ll repeat it as soon as
Scilab is installed and opened.