Buying student versions of software

Mokonon
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:09:27 +0000

For some of things, there are perfectly good free alternatives out there, but for other things, the free alternatives come up short. For example, Octave is a free, open source alternative to Matlab, but it’s still fairly immature and doesn’t have nearly as many features. Therefore, the student version of Matlab is a great purchase. A regular Matlab license can easily cost over 5 grand depending on how many additional tooboxes you purchase. A license for the student version is a small fraction of the cost and is pretty much full featured.

Your son is using Fortran? In 2011? That’s kind of weird. I hope it wasn’t too painful (I hate fortran code)!