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+====== Control of Mobile Robots ======
+===== MATLAB Alternatives =====
+The course uses MATLAB for programming exercises - but this is expensive so I want to find alternatives. [[http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/|Octave]] was mentioned on the Coursera forum, and a quick Google revealed [[http://freemat.sourceforge.net/|FreeMat]]. One [[http://amca01.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/the-best-matlab-alternative/|blog]] also suggested [[http://www.scilab.org/|Scilab]].
+The blog mentioned falls in favour of GUI Octave - [[coursera:octave|so I'll pursue that option initially...]]
+There's also a paper comparing the options here: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~gobbert/papers/SharmaGobbertTR2010.pdf ({{:coursera:sharmagobberttr2010.pdf|or locally}})
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