{"id":5577,"date":"2014-10-22T14:47:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T13:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2014-10-22T14:47:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T13:47:33","slug":"engineering-textbook-companions-using-scilab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5577","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Textbook Companions using Scilab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many engineering textbooks such as Ogata&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0136156738\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0136156738&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=walkingrandom-21&amp;linkId=ANAYMHVFYWOX77MK\">Modern Control Engineering<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=walkingrandom-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=0136156738\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0include small code examples written in languages such as MATLAB. If you don&#8217;t have access to MATLAB and if the examples don&#8217;t run in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/octave\/\">GNU Octave<\/a> for some reason, the value of these textbooks is reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kannan M. Moudgalya et al of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have developed an ambitious project that has ported the code examples of over 400 textbooks to the open-source computational system, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scilab.org\/\">Scilab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scilab.in\/Completed_Books\">Textbook Companion Project<\/a>\u00a0has free Scilab code for textbooks from a range of subject areas including Fluid Mechanics, \u00a0Control Systems, Chemical Engineering and Digital Electronics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many engineering textbooks such as Ogata&#8217;s Modern Control Engineering\u00a0include small code examples written in languages such as MATLAB. If you don&#8217;t have access to MATLAB and if the examples don&#8217;t run in GNU Octave for some reason, the value of these textbooks is reduced. Professor Kannan M. Moudgalya et al of the Indian Institute of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,40,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-free-software","category-math-software","category-matlab"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1rX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5579,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}