Customer Reviews

Modeling and Simulation in Scilab/Scicos with ScicosLab 4.4

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The book "Modeling and Simulation with Scilab/Scicos"
is well written and understandable to
readers with the basic signal processing and programming
background.
The reader can refresh/improve the knowledge of
some basic control theory material, while at the
same time learns how to apply Scilab/Scicos at simulation and
modeling problems.
I worked with Matlab for many years before and I found
Scilab/Scicos a very powerful alternative to Matlab/Simulink
and is free!
I recommend strongly this book to any scientist/engineer that
plans to explore the benefits of the excellent open
source Scilab/Scicos environment.

I like the book. It is one of the only Scilab/Scicos books available. However the back cover and the publishers review says "All codes used in the book are made available to the reader" There are not any Scilab codes that are available and the ONLY available codes are Scicos examples for chapter 7. It looks like the authors of the Scilab part of the book thought it was too much effort to include any code on the books web page.

The examples referred to by a previous reviewer can be found at:

http://www.scicos.org/examples.html

I don't understand why the book title on Amazon is published as "Modeling and Simulation in Scilab/Scicos with ScicosLab 4.4" while the actual title is "Modeling and Simulation in Scilab/Scicos".

Indeed I was planning to buy the book for quite some times, however, I was waiting for a new realease as I understand this book has been quite some times ago. With the title "with ScicosLab 4.4", it seems to be the books come with a pre-release of the free software version 4.4 (as I understand the lastest version now is 4.3!)

Well it might be a marketing cheat by Amazon? Anyhow, I still like the book.