tutorial for newbie

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Jan-2008, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

| On Jan 4, 2008 11:13 AM, Nicola Benaglia <nico.benaz at gmail.com> wrote:
| > Hi,
| > I am new to octave and I'd like to learn it through examples and tutorial.
| > Could you please suggest me some of that material?
| 
| See e.g.:
| 
| http://www.nabble.com/getting-started-w--Octave-td14195674.html

The Octave manual also has a short tutorial section in the
introduction.  It would be useful if someone expanded that section so
that we had some free introductory documentation to recommend.

jwe