Scilab/C2/Why-Scilab/English-timed
From Script | Spoken-Tutorial
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Why Scilab. |
| 00:06 | In this tutorial, you will come to know some of the capabilities of the Scilab package and benefits of shifting to Scilab. |
| 00:16 | Scilab is free and open source, user friendly numerical and computational package, |
| 00:23 | used in various streams of Engineering and Science. |
| 00:28 | It is available for various operating systems (OS) namely Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X. |
| 00:35 | Scilab is to be pronounced with “Sci” as in Scientific and “Lab” as in Laboratory. |
| 00:43 | Because Scilab is a free and open source software , users can: |
| 00:48 | * See and modify the source code. |
| 00:51 | * Redistribute and improve the source code. |
| 00:55 | * Use the software for any purpose. |
| 00:59 | This is obvious advantage for Private Industries, Entrepreneurs, Defence Establishments, |
| 01:05 | Research Organisations, Academic Institutions and the Individual User. |
| 01:12 | As an institution, piracy of commercial packages is avoided fully by adopting FOSS tools. |
| 01:20 | Skills learnt using Scilab, at academic level, are useful later in the industry as usage is free of cost. |
| 01:29 | Scilab, together with various toolboxes which are also free, can perform operations like- |
| 01:36 | * Matrix operations |
| 01:38 | * Control Systems |
| 01:40 | * Image and Video Processing |
| 01:43 | * Real-time Control of Hardware using (Serial Toolbox) |
| 01:48 | * Interfacing Data Acquisition Systems/Cards using (HART Toolbox) |
| 01:54 | * Simulation with the help of (Xcos-Block Diagram Simulator) |
| 01:59 | * Plotting. |
| 02:01 | Hardware In Loop i.e. (HIL) Simulation: |
| 02:06 | * Hardware-In-Loop differs from the pure real-time simulation by the addition of a real component in the loop. |
| 02:14 | * Scilab in combination with 'Single Board Heater System device' is used as a HIL setup for performing control system experiments. |
| 02:26 | Syntax is very easy for Scilab. |
| 02:29 | Many numerical problems can be expressed in a reduced number of code lines, as compared to similar solutions using traditional languages, such as Fortran, C, or C++. |
| 02:42 | Scilab, like many well known proprietary packages, uses “State-of-art” libraries i.e LAPACK for numerical computations. |
| 02:52 | There is a very large user community that uses and supports Scilab by contributing a great deal in the form of: |
| 03:00 | * Mailing lists, |
| 03:02 | * Usenet groups i.e (Internet Discussion forums), and websites. |
| 03:07 | For more information about scilab, its toolboxes and mailing lists visit: scilab.org or scilab.in website. |
| 03:18 | Some organizations that are using Scilab very successfully are: |
| 03:23 | * CNES which is French Space Satellite Agency |
| 03:28 | * EQUALIS |
| 03:31 | * Techpassiontech and |
| 03:33 | * IIT Bombay for research and academic purposes. |
| 03:37 | Some of the activities for promoting Scilab through NMEICT projects at IIT Bombay are: |
| 03:45 | * Lab Migration that is Shifting all computational laboratories to Scilab. |
| 03:51 | * Virtual Labs that is Remote Access to the Single Board Heater System. |
| 03:56 | In addition, the FOSSEE Project funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt of India, currently focuses on Python and Scilab. |
| 04:07 | We have several spoken tutorials on Scilab at this time. |
| 04:12 | Scilab Effort in India is coordinated through this website: scilab.in. |
| 04:18 | There are some interesting projects. One of them is the Textbook Companion project that codes worked out examples of standard textbooks using Scilab. |
| 04:28 | The link project allows users to link known Scilab documents and rank them. |
| 04:34 | We also help organize Scilab Workshops. |
| 04:38 | We have two mailing lists, one for announce and another for discuss. |
| 04:43 | We invite your participation in all our activities. |
| 04:47 | Let us get back to spoken tutorials. |
| 04:50 | The spoken part will be available in various Indian Languages as well. |
| 04:56 | These are available at spoken-tutorial.org website. |
| 05:01 | These tutorials form a part of Level 0 training in Scilab. |
| 05:06 | These tutorials are available absolutely free of cost. |
| 05:10 | We wish to cover many FOSS systems through this route. |
| 05:14 | We welcome your feedback on these. |
| 05:17 | We also welcome your participation: |
| 05:19 | * On writing the outline for the software. |
| 05:22 | * To write the original scripts. |
| 05:24 | * To record the spoken tutorial. |
| 05:27 | * To translate the script into various Indian Languages. |
| 05:31 | * To dub the audio in Indian Languages using the script. |
| 05:35 | * To review and give your feedback on all of the above. |
| 05:39 | We welcome you to conduct workshops using these spoken tutorials. |
| 05:44 | We also invite you to conduct efficacy studies on Spoken tutorials. |
| 05:49 | We are also looking for experts who can give technology support for audio, video, automatic translation, etc. |
| 05:57 | We have funding for all these activities. |
| 06:00 | This spoken tutorial has been created by the Free and Open Source Software in Science and Engineering Education (FOSSEE). |
| 06:08 | More information on the FOSSEE project could be obtained from fossee.in or scilab.in website. |
| 06:16 | This is Supported by the National Mission on Eduction through ICT, MHRD, Government of India. |
| 06:22 | For more information, visit: http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro. |
| 06:31 | This is Anuradha Amrutkar from IIT Bombay, signing off. |
| 06:34 | Thank you for joining us, Good Bye. |
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