Scilab Tutorials for STEM beginners

Prepared by Chayan Bhawal and P Sunthar, IIT Bombay

These tutorials are meant for any beginner to quickly understand and carry out some frequently employed tasks with Scilab. They are aimed at teachers and students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).

These tutorial files have been prepared by the FOSSEE team of IIT Bombay. The tutorial files can be found here: FOSSEE Scilab Tutorial Codes. These files are to be used in conjuction with the tutorial slides which can be viewed here: FOSSEE Scilab Tutorial Slides.

On successful completion of the tutorials you should be able to

• carry out elementary matrix operations
• create scientific plots (of publication quality)
• solve simple algebraic and differential equations

Expected time to complete the tutorials: Six to Eight hours