I did everything in Octave. And it was a great learning experience. Octave is very easy to learn if you have previous programming experience. You won't _write

I did everything in Octave. And it was a great learning experience. Octave is very easy to learn if you have previous programming experience. You won't _write_ programs a lot. There will be cookie-cutter code, and you will fill in some blanks. A line here a line there. Trust me, Octave wasn’t a deal-breaker if you tried. And a lot of formulae were the code.