I need to buy the MATLAB software?

Question

Hi, I'm a civil engineering student and am going to be using MATLAB in some courses over the Summer. Does anyone have any recommendations as to a cheaper way to get the software? All I am seeing are $100 price tags, and it would be really nice if I could avoid that.

Answer 1

There are several alternatives as mentioned already. For more info and links you could also google "open source matlab."

Answer 2

That price is actually pretty cheap for Matlab (the student version). The commericial version is thousands.



I would try to borrow someone else's version of the student edition of Matlab for those courses. You probably won't use Matlab that much as a civil engineer anyway.



The other people have listed good Matlab alternatives.

Answer 3

You could always use torrent files, though I've heard working serials are hard to find for this one. I have heard success stories however, so they can be found.

Answer 4

See if they have a student version.

Answer 5

Try http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.scilab.org/ or http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ or http://rlab.sourceforge.net/