Talk:Octave Programming Tutorial/Getting started

It should not be: Type octave in a terminal window to get started. You should see the following.

Instead it should be Type octave in a terminal window to get started. You should see something like:

Perhaps I'm just too stupid to do this, but I have no idea how to do one of the first exercises since I have no idea what the Є symbol represented (wikipedia wasn't tremendously helpful either). I'm here because I want to understand enough Octave so that I can read data in (from NetCDF files) and get it plotted out, with maybe some simple maths. But I don't have a degree and I am certainly no mathematician.

Online Tools
Try to add the SageCell-Server to provide an Online alternative --Bert Niehaus (discuss • contribs) 06:28, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

=Example to plot sine wave= When running in the GUI for version 4.0.0, the 'figure' command seems to need a number behind it, such as "figure 1;". Otherwise it opens a second, blank window as 'Figure 2" and hides the plot in 'Figure 1." - 71.166.104.170 (discuss) 19:12, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

comma vs. semicolon
Hi,

I have been looking for more then an hour today to find out that then when you do (say) you get this line: and -especially- how to stop this. (as all this also appeared as output of scripts, which is kind-of annoying).

The answer is, as I found it, is to terminate the line with a semicolon. For some reason, this was not at all clear in the online documentation on GNU Octave (I actually found this in a book I bought).

Now, I do not know if I am the only newbie with this question. Perhaps it would be usefull to note this fact in the online documentation. (perhaps on this "gettting started" page?)

Cheerio! Kr. Bonne (kristoff (at) skypro (dot) be), 20151105