Here you will find links to Scilab documentation. Feel free to edit it, add new links, or mark old ones as obsolete.

What is Scilab

• About

• History

• License

• Features

• Interoperability

• Modules

Main documentation

• Scilab Online Help

• Tutorials

• Papers and Books

• ScilabTEC presentations

• What's new with Scilab 6.0.0

The Scilab Language

• Different execution modes of Scilab

• Global and local variables

• Object Oriented Emulation: part 1 - part 2 - part 3

• Command reference

• Coding styles:

  • Code Conventions for the Scilab Programming Language

  • Code Conventions for the C Programming Language

  • Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language

  • Expectations in the source code modifications

  • Programming languages in Scilab and their usage

• Why using key=value syntax to manage input arguments is not a good idea

• Standard errors messages

Scilab Graphics and GUI

• Creating plots

• Color maps

• Creating Graphical User Interface

• Creating dialogs with uicontrol

• Scilab and OpenGL

• Three main issues making the graphic so slow

• Graphic handles, what's behind?

• Exporting figures

• Silently turn the canvas off

• Create a bubble chart

• Create a scatter plot matrix

Numerical Computing with Scilab

• Datasheets and overviews

  • Scilab Computational Datasheet

  • Scilab Optimization Datasheet

  • Overview of sparse matrices in Scilab

  • Overview of interpolation in Scilab

  • Overview of probabilities and statistics in Scilab

  • Overview of parallel computing in Scilab

• New Scientific Features

  • New Scientific Features in 2012

  • New Scientific Features in 2011

  • New Scientific Features in 2010

  • New Scientific Features in 2009

  • New Scientific Features in 2008

• Fourier transforms

  • Multidimensional data

• Linear Algebra:

  • Linear Algebra issues

  • Performance of Linear Algebra

  • Solving Poisson PDE with Sparse Matrices

• Optimization:

  • Scilab Optimization Datasheet

  • The qpsolve primitive

  • Rastrigin function

  • The optim primitive

  • Non-linear optimization for parameter fitting example

  • The Nelder-Mead Component

  • Linear Programming Examples in Scilab

  • Performances of Scilab on the More, Garbow, Hillstrom optimization benchmark

  • Model Predictive Control

• Partial Differential Equations:

  • Finite Elements

  • Finite Volumes

• Probabilities and Statistics

  • Random Number Generation

• Performance

  • Lack of use of BLAS-LAPACK

  • Plot the Mandelbrot Set with Scilab

• Other topics:

  • Thermodynamics In Scilab

  • Derivatives In Scilab

  • Simulating heat conduction on a square block

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