I'd like to use SciLab as an alternative for the 90% of things I need to do that don't require MATLAB's proprietary functionality (and for which we have a limited # of expensive concurrent licenses at my company).
Is there an introductory manual or primer? Google for "scilab manual" shows the 'manual' as a flat list of functions that is of little help for someone new to the program.
I guess I'm spoiled by Mathworks's documentation on MATLAB, notably the user guides, and was hoping there might be something similar.
The Scilab website has an official tutorial on Scilab that is pretty good.
I maintain a list of unofficial tutorials here.