layout: post title: "[电脑网络]Octave Portable and Octave in the Cloud" date: '2014-03-05T09:29:00.000-09:00' author: Qingyang tags:
<div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arvo, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 9px; outline: 0px;">I am now taking an on-line course about Machine Learning on CourseRA (<a href="https://class.coursera.org/ml-005/" style="color: blue; outline: 0px;">Link to the course</a>) which requires Matlab or Octave (an open-source alternative of Matlab) for its programming assignments.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arvo, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 9px; outline: 0px;">I am taking this course on computers in a library on which I don't have the privilege to install anything. I found there is a portable version of Octave available (<a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_8728153_install-octave-portable.html" style="color: blue; outline: 0px;">see here</a> ) that I can put it on my USB drive and use it on any Windows computer. I haven't tried it yet but it will be very convenient for people who like to take their working environment with them on a USB stick. The caveat is that I can only do this on Windows machines. Also, the portable Octave is based on Octave v2.9.15 while the latest Octave is v3.6.2.The ML class, however, provides an 3.2.4 version (<a href="http://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/ml/software/Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.4.0_setup.exe" style="color: blue; outline: 0px;">Windows version download link</a>).</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arvo, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 9px; outline: 0px;">From the class forum I learnt that there is an cloud based service which offering access to 3.6.2 version of Octave. Again, I haven't tried it yet but it seems to be an promising way to practice Octave. The Link of the service is <a href="http://octave.im/" style="color: blue; outline: 0px;">here</a>.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arvo, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 9px; outline: 0px;">Download Links:</div><ol style="color: #444444; font-family: Arvo, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 9px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li style="outline: 0px;"><a href="https://forja.rediris.es/frs/download.php/433/qtoctave0.6.8_octave2.9.15_Portable_win32.zip" style="color: blue; outline: 0px;">Portable Octave 2.9.15 Download</a></li><li style="outline: 0px;"><a href="http://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/ml/software/Octave-3.2.4_i686-pc-mingw32_gcc-4.4.0_setup.exe" style="color: blue; outline: 0px;">Installation Octave 3.2.4 Download</a></li><li style="outline: 0px;"><a href="http://octave.im/" style="color: blue; outline: 0px;">Octave 3.6.2 in the Cloud</a></li></ol>