Scilab video tutorials

Here you have a few video tutorials or screencasts that I found around the web teaching or demonstrating Scilab. I have included brief notes about each video to make it easy for you to decide if you want to watch them.  Also I did a little of filtering by selecting screencasts showing Scilab version 5 or greater.

Now, my findings.

Series

The following screencasts series were the best I found in terms of quality, organization and content:

Scilab: How to install and use Scilab – Lesson 1

Part 1 of a series of introductory lessons (12:12 minutes). Rest of series is available as a pay product.

• uses Scilab 5.1.1 on Windows XP
• topics: downloading from website, semicolon “;” meaning, clearing variables from memory, viewing environment status, built-in constants, vector and matrix operations, complex numbers
• readable text but blurry at full screen

Spoken tutorials on Scilab

A series of 10 videos each one with language options: English, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi and others.

• uses Scilab 5.2.0 on Mac OS
• topics: mathematical operations, matrix and vector operation, programming, Scicos

Scilab series

A series of 15 videos introducing Scilab. No sound.

• uses Scilab 5.3.1 and 5.3.2 on Windows Vista (it seems)

Individual videos

A good alternative to Matlab: Scilab for Mac

Demonstrates basic Scilab use and compares features with MatLab (4:02 minutes).

• uses Scilab 5.2.1 on Mac OS
• mostly uses the Scilab text editor
• importing MatLab files
• using the demos included in Scilab
• shows Xcos but admits he does not know how to use it
• volume is a little low

How to perform matrix multiplications and inverse with Scilab

The video shows exactly what its title says  (7:59 minutes).

• uses Scilab 5.1 on Windows XP
• matrix syntax
• inverse of a matrix
• clearing the console
• exit Scilab
• some times a little difficult to understand words

RTC Scilab demo 1

Demonstrates RTC toolbox with Xcos to control robotics with Scilab (2:08 minutes, no sound, english and japanese text).

• uses Scilab 5.2.2 on Windows Vista
• using Xcos.

Using Scilab-XCOS to simulate PID controller

As the title says (6:06 minutes, no sound)

• uses Scilab version 5  on Linux
• illustrates use of Xcos

Calculate derivative at a point (spanish)

Shows how to calculate the derivative of a function at a point (1:29 minutes, spanish)

• Scilab 5.1.1 on Windows XP (it seems)
• creating a function
• calculate derivative at a point
• was recorded with a video camera

Basic tutorial (czech)

Introduction to Scilab. (3:17 minutes, czech)

• uses Scilab 5 on Windows Vista (it seems)
• showing date
• vector and matrix syntax
• elementwise operations
• text blurred at full screen

Impulse, step and transfer functions (spanish)

Demonstrates how to program a simulation of a transfer function using impulse and steps functions (2:11 minutes, spanish)

• uses Scilab 5.1 on Windows XP
• plotting
• opening  multiple plot windows

I have collected many of this videos in a Youtube playlist.

By the way, there is an official Scilab channel in Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ScilabChannel

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