“SCILAB - an Open Source Substitute for MATLAB”

Organized By: JNTUH College of Engineering, Sultanpur http://www.jntuhcesfdp.in/

Journal for Day-1
Scilab (http://scilab.org, http://scilab.in) is an open source scientific software package for numerical
computations. It has an extremely reliable and efficiently coded numerical library. It is also a high
productivity tool: Through its interpreted language, one can quickly develop the code required to solve
problems. Typically, if it takes ten lines of C code for some calculation, Scilab would require only one for
the same purpose.
Scilab runs on all popular operating systems. Since 1994, it has been distributed freely along with the source
code via the Internet. It is useful for students at school, college and roupas da moda research level. It is also
useful for researchers and professionals.
IIT Bombay is leading the effort to popularise Scilab in India. This is part of the Free and Open source
Software for Science and Engineering Education (FOSSEE) project, supported by the National Mission on
Education through ICT of MHRD.
IIT Bombay is using Spoken Tutorials (http://spoken-tutorial.org) to create learning material for FOSS. This
is the main page for the organisation of the scripts required for Scilab spoken tutorials. We invite the Scilab
user community to participate in this activity.

Basic Level Introduction to Scilab

This level will include a set of tutorials that are required to be known in order to qualify as "Scilab Literate".
The tutorials here will teach programming weight loss pills fundamentals and the most commonly used
Scilab functionality- Matrix operations and Plotting.

1. Why Scilab
 Capabilities of the Scilab package
 Benefits of shifting to Scilab.
2. Installing
 Show where to download from and how to decide which version to choose
 Windows installation
 Linux installation (using package manager- show only Debian/Ubuntu as example (sudo apt-
get install scilab) as well as generic binary)
 Mac
 Compilation from source can come as a part of a more advanced tutorial