Introduction

This tutorial is intended as for beginners and intermediate level users of Sicyon. It does not cover all the features of Sicyon, but explains them in more details (and pictures). The tutorial is not replacement of the help, but complementary to it.

The tutorial is located on the Sicyon site, for allowing me to add new examples and explanations following your questions and remarks.
Any comments or question about the tutorial or Sicyon calculator - go here .

You can download zipped version of Sicyon tutorial for offline use - HERE (updated monthly).

This is a common tutorial for Lite and Pro versions of Sicyon
The examples which require Pro version and Pro specific features are marked with .

The calculation mode assumed for all examples (unless it's specified otherwise) is semi-automatic (Modes menu).

Sicyon Basics

Sicyon is an all-in-one scientific calculator for every student and professor, researcher and developer.

The engine of Sicyon (its scripter) is a program language interpreter. The programming language of Sicyon scripter is VBScript (© Microsoft Corp.), but functions could be defined in JScript (© Microsoft Corp.) as well.

Principal features (  marks the new ones for version 4; all features are new as well)

  • calculate the value of a math expression using variables and user-defined functions.
  • easy access to user-defined functions (VBScript™ or JScript™ languages  ) by buttons organized in function boards.
  • 'Program mode' allows you to execute pieces of VBScript™ code in the main window.
  • a board browser for easier access to the boards and their content.
  • plot / tabulate a function in Explicit or Parametric mode , accommodating multiply charts.
  • customizable HTML reports for all math procedures.
  • solve system of equations (up to 6).
  • fit a curve (one-param.function) over data - non-linear regression.
  • fit batch of data sets to the same function and gives the fitted coefficient results and batch statistics in a table.
  • fit more than 3300 functions over a single data set and present the list of the best fitted functions with their coefficients.
  • find minimums, maximums and definite integral / derivatives of a function in a given interval of one (2D case) or two (3D case) variables.
  • use a sophisticated units of measurement converter. Sicyon Units Converter Pro is integrated in Sicyon Pro.
  • searchable tables with various physical and chemical constants arranged in data boards.
  • editable spreadsheet-like user-data boards.
  • use matrices and matrix calculations.
  • "plug-in" additional applications called tool boards, usable as objects in the script.
  • organize the boards as tabbed pages in groups.
  • context information on each level of organization - function buttons/ boards/groups.
  • including much more boards. ...now with connector tool to R-project statistical software.

  For advanced users:

  • use Sicyon as out-of-process COM server to access a scripter and most of Sicyon's features (development kit is included )
  • create new database boards with DataBoard Utility.
  • add new units of measurement and their conversion rules from, and to SI.