Baby's first options Pricer

[Ottawaphoenix]

Ok so I am a soon to be quantitative economics undergrad student in Canada (was supposed to be in already but program was canceled due to lack of applications), and I am looking to build my first model Via Matlab/excel (probably Matlab) to test out some synthetic options arbitrage theories from hull's book.

Is this possible without Bloomberg/Reuters?

Any advice before attempting to tackle this?

Finding it impossible to get information on arbitrage from anyone in my network or on the internet other than examples on possible arbitrage situations, and I find it quite interesting.