Gnu Octave by Example: A Fast and Practical Approach to Learning Gnu Octave (Paperback)

· 제목 : Gnu Octave by Example: A Fast and Practical Approach to Learning Gnu Octave (Paperback) 
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 컴퓨터 > 프로그래밍 > 오픈소스
· ISBN : 9781484260852
· 쪽수 : 173쪽
· 출판일 : 2020-09-15

Chapter 1:  An introduction to GNU Octave

Chapter Goal: Introduce the reader to the GNU Octave tool and steps for the installation on various popular platform

No of pages         - 15 (will include the screenshots of GUI too)

Sub -Topics

1.     What is GNU Octave and its history

2.     Applications

3.     Limitations of Octave

4.     The Octave Community

5.     Comparison with other tools (MATLAB and Scilab)

6.     Install Octave and Jupyter

●      Windows

●      Ubuntu

●      Raspberry Pi

7.     Octave Programming Modes

●      Octave CLI and launching CLI from the command prompt

●      Octave GUI and *.m files

●      Jupyter Notebook

 

Chapter 2:  Action with Octave Programming

Chapter Goal: Help the reader to engage with hands-on exercises with GNU Octave. Readers will explore the basic functionality of the GUI and command line in the interactive mode.

No of pages: 10

Sub - Topics       

1.     Getting started with the interactive mode

2.     Basics of variables

3.     Data types and naming conversions

4.     Global and local variables

5.     Clear the screen and get the help

6.     Writing scripts and launching them from the command prompt

7.     Predefined constants and common mathematical functions

8.     Complex variables

9.     Various Operations on variables

 

Chapter 3: Matrices and Operations

Chapter Goal: Demonstrate the multidimensional data with matrices and their operations with GNU Octave

No of pages: 15

Sub - Topics:      

1.     Scalars, vectors, and matrices

2.     Operations on Matrices and Arrays

 

Chapter 4: Scripts, Loops, and User defined functions

Chapter Goal: Write Scripts and Loops. Learn how to write own custom user defined functions in GNU Octave. This chapter heavily focuses on scripting part and programming constructs. We will also see how to read the data from various sources for further working.

No of pages: 15

Sub - Topics:

1.     Scripts

2.     Loops

3.     Define functions

4.     Inline functions

5.     Save data into files

6.     Read data from csv files

7.     Work with online data sources

8.     Binary file format

 

Chapter 5 : Data Visualization

Chapter goal ? Learn to visualize data with octave. Readers working in the data science and visualization domains will be benefited from this.

No of pages: 15

Sub - Topics:

1.     2D Plotting

2.     3D Plotting

3.     Surface Plotting

 

Chapter 6 : Data Analysis

Chapter goal ? Learn to analyze data with octave. Again, the readers working in the domain of data science and analytics will benefit from this.

No of pages: 10

Sub - Topics:

1.     Simple descriptive statistics

2.     Histogram and moments

3.     Comparing data sets

4.     Function fitting

5.     Polynomial fitting

 

Chapter 7 : Geometry

Chapter goal ? Understand geometry and its applications with octave. We will explore the GNU Octave implementation of important geometry related algorithms.

No of pages: 10

Sub - Topics:

1.     Delaunay Triangulation

2.     Voronoi Diagrams

3.     Convex Hull

4.     Interpolation on Scattered Data

 

Chapter 8 : Signal Processing

Chapter goal ? Learn to work with Fourier analysis and processing techniques for signal.

No of pages: 10

Sub - Topics:

1.     Signal Generation

2.     Fourier Analysis

 

Chapter 9 : Image, Video, and Audio Processing

Chapter goal ? Learn to process images, video, and audio. We will see all the techniques in details.

No of pages: 20

Sub - Topics:

1.     Image Processing

2.     Video Processing

3.     Audio Processing

 

Appendix

Chapter goal ? This chapter will have all assorted topics that are not related to each other but very important for readers.

No of pages: 10

Sub - Topics:

1.     Oct2py

2.     Structures and cellarrays