CS2503 Scientific Programming
Fall 2008
Course Announcements:
Lecture is moved to room KEP-U5
The course text book is:
title: MATLAB: An introduction With Applications
author: Amos Gilat
publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0-471-69420-7
The CS2500 lab instructor will be TBA
Lab Section
Time
Room
L1
Thursday 11:00am-12:15pm
KEP-L2
L2
Thursday 2:00pm-3:15pm
KEP-L2
Course Outline & Reading Assignments (Gilat):
Course text,
title: MATLAB: An introduction With Applications
author: Amos Gilat
publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0-471-69420-7
2nd edition
Week 1, Computer hardware. Measuring performance.
Week 2, Networking, and Software. Read chapters 1 & 2.
Week 3, Base conversions, Data Types, Variables, Arrays, and Computer Arithmetic: Read section 3.4 & sections 5.1, & 5.3-5.5.
Week 4, Matrices & Modularization (Procedural): Read section 4.1-4.5 & sections 6.1 through 6.7.
Week 5,
Review/Exam 1
Week 6, Relational & Boolean Operators, Read section 7.1.
Week 7, Programming: Branching, Read sections 7.2 & 7.3
Week 8, Programming: Iteration, Read section 7.4
Week 9, Formating output, Read section 4.6.
Week 10,
Exam #2
, Nested loops.
Week 11, Programming: IO and Recursion. Read section 4.7.
Week 12, Algorithm Complexity: Sort & Search.
Week 13, Error Estimation; Stability and Condition Numbers.
Week 14, Finite Difference Methods &
Review
.
Exam 3 TBA
Course Links:
Download MS Word version of
syllabus
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Homework assignments
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Lab information
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Assignment Exam Schedule
Exam
Date
Study Material
First Quiz
Thursday September 11
Base conversions, bring your calculator.
First Hour Exam
Thursday September 25
Exam 1 Guide
Second Hour Exam
Tuesday October 28
Exam 2 Guide
Third Hour Exam
Thursday Dec 11 @ 9:00am
Exam 3 Guide
Contact information:
james-childress@utulsa.edu
Office: KEP U331
Office hours: TT 9:30am-11:00am; MW 2:00pm-3:00pm, or by appointment
Lab assistant:
@utulsa.edu
Office: KEP U344
Office hours: TBA