[PDF] Top 20 Introduction to GNU Octave - Free Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials

... Octave script files are plain text files containing a series of Octave commands. A script file needs to have a “.m” extension (not the .txt used by default in Windows for text files) and cannot begin with ... See full document

... The theory of sets, initiated by Georg Cantor (1845–1918), constitutes the basis of almost all modern mathematics. The set concept itself cannot be defined in simpler terms. A set is often described as a ... See full document

... So, why all this trouble? Why not simply use a word processor? The answer lies in the motivation behind TEX. Donald Knuth says that his aim in creating TEX is to beautifully typeset technical documents especially ... See full document

... A service can be one of the three types of interaction: man-to-man, man-to-machine, or machine-to- machine. A restaurant service is an example of man-to-man interaction. A person withdrawing money from an Automated ... See full document

... The Bell numbers turn up in many other problems; here is an interesting example. A common need in some computer programs is to generate a random permutation of 1, 2, 3, . . . , n, which we may think of as a shuffle ... See full document

... Now, a 5NF relvar is guaranteed never to exhibit redundancy of the kind that can be eliminated by projection-join normalization. Contrary to what I wrote here in the first edition of this book, non-5NF relvars do exist ... See full document

... of Computer Programs, which is a widely used and excellent introductory programming ...introductory books on Scheme programming. Most of those books, though, are for beginning ... See full document

... Object-oriented programming is a programming model based on “objects” and their interactions. The OCaml object system, like many other object-oriented languages, includes various concepts like objects, ... See full document

... In the first two chapters, we introduced objects that have Properties and Operations. In addition to properties and operations, some objects have what are called Events. Events are like signals that are raised, for ... See full document

... It would be interesting to trace how the concept of “winning strategy” was absorbed by mass culture. One would also like to know which had the greater impact on public awareness—computer games or the gradual ... See full document

... One way to understand what’s going on here is through the concept of a closure, a technique for implementing higher-order functions. When a function expression is evaluated, a copy of the environment is attached to the ... See full document

... of mathematics. The idea that mathematics is the creation of the mind has led intuitionists to the view that the law of excluded middle and “the principle that for every system the correctness of a property ... See full document

... Most games rely almost exclusively on surface blits for their drawing (as opposed to drawing with individual pixels). For example, consider the game Civilization: Call To Power (which was ported to Linux using SDL). ... See full document

... decades, computer science and programming have gone through something of a ...In programming, the old order is represented by the procedural paradigm, in which programs consist of a collection of ... See full document

... Failure to understand the difference between scope and visibility causes more problems for new Ada programmers than any other single topic. It is an idea central to the design of all Ada software. There is an entire ALRM ... See full document

... course notes for a neural networks module given as part of a Masters degree in "Intelligent ...to computer science and engineering) and I knew that I could not count on their being able to come to grips ... See full document

... If you wish to start somewhere in the middle of the book, or if you only wish to do the "Extra Credit" work, or if you just want to examine the results without doing the tutorials directly yourself, you ... See full document

... As the above exercise indicates, the Henstock- Kurzweil integral (also known as the Denjoy integral or Perron in- tegral ) extends the Riemann integral and the absolutely convergent Lebe[r] ... See full document

... Carrying on, suppose that we generate data packets by sampling and see an anomalous behavior in your router. In order to reproduce and debug this problem one needs access to the same set of random packets which caused ... See full document

... Pascal Programming Language in simple and easy ...Pascal Programming concepts, and after completing this tutorial, you will be at intermediate level of expertise from where you can take yourself to higher ... See full document