Hey guys,
so i'm taking a course where i really need to use MATLAB but i don't have it installed on my laptopand i don't wanna use the computer lab everytime. Does anyone know where i could download a copy of MATLAB? Is it free for McMaster students?
Thanks,

Its not free for students -- you're going to have to download an illegal copy by torrenting if you want to use it without purchasing. Discussion of warez is not permitted, so I'll leave it at that. A free, legal alternative is 'octave', but I don't have much experience with that so I couldn't recommend it.

ask in the engineering groups on facebook. someone will definitely link you to what you need.

FYI we've changed our "pirating" policies as long as we dont see any direct links and promotion of it.

I have matlab for mac and windows pm me

Originally Posted by RyanC

Its not free for students -- you're going to have to download an illegal copy by torrenting if you want to use it without purchasing. Discussion of warez is not permitted, so I'll leave it at that. A free, legal alternative is 'octave', but I don't have much experience with that so I couldn't recommend it.

Octave is not much different from Matlab, nearly identical syntax. I believe any Matlab code is also valid Octave code, but not vice-versa. It's almost a C/C++ situation, just a much smaller difference between the two than that.