When:
Tuesday May 29, 2012 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
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Greetings Attendees!

For those of you bringing laptops to the Octave session, here are some steps you can take to prepare that will dramatically improve your experience.

First, and most important, download and install Octave in advance.This site has the instructions: 

Note that for Windows, you probably want the Mingw version at this site:
http://www.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Octave_for_Windows

Download both the current version of octave, and the packages for it.

Follow the instructions and install both if you can.

Then, in addition, a text editor for programming is very helpful. On windows,  you can use Notepad++, available at:
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.1.2.html

For the Mac I don't have specific recommendations for a text editor.

I personally use emacs, which is a very powerful, extremely unfriendly choice, but for those of you who like to not only type but hit a keystroke and do calculus in your text editor, I recommend it highly:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

If you have any data sets from work in class that you would like to be able to graph, by all means bring them.  The ideal formats are as text files or as .csv files, but if you have Excel, you can always save the files as .csv

Looking forward to seeing you at the session!
Dov Kruger