I used Octave and Matlab back and forth last year for my Computer Vision class. My experience on Octave was fine except it is increadibly slower than Matlab...

I used Octave and Matlab back and forth last year for my Computer Vision class. My experience on Octave was fine except it is increadibly slower than Matlab... The nice thing about Octave is that it is a portable program that you can store it in a USB memory then use it anywhere.