The MATLAB 101 handout will be extremely useful for in-class exercises. You are expected to have it with you each class.
| Date | Material covered |
|---|---|
| 6 Sep | Introductions, course overview and administration, and a little game of “guess the number” to introduce the concept of algorithms. |
| 9 Sep | Work through calc.m and sphere.m handout (variables, assignment, values, fprintf, input) |
| 13 Sep | Work through countdown.m and vectors.m handout (while loop, vector creation and manipulation). For homework work through the evenodd.m and fatdog.m handout (for loops, if-elseif-else statements) and the addem.m and addem2.m handout (while and for loops with carried values). |
| 16 Sep | Review of handouts from 13 Sep. |
| 20 Sep | Fun with loops (interactive loop, sentinel loop). |
| 23 Sep | Problem solving approach: walk-through of the prime number question from lab 3 |
| 27 Sep | Review of if-elseif-else statements. Functions and if statements. |
| 30 Sep | RMC obstacle course, no class. Good luck to all! |
| 4 Oct | More functions and if statements (discounts at the Large Wombat department store) |
| 7 Oct | Dr. Phillips away, no class. Happy Thanksgiving. |
| 11 Oct | Informal introduction to sorting. See the Wikipedia articles on sorting algorithms, bubblesort, and selection sort, as well as sortvis.org and the sorting algorithms animations page |
| 14 Oct | Discussion of the midterm study guide and last year's midterm. |
| 18 Oct | Midterm examination |
| 21 Oct | Discusson of the midterm. |
| 25 Oct | 2D matrices questions 1–7 (and half the period stolen for the Dean's workload survey) |
| 28 Oct | 2D matrices questions 8–11 |
| 1 Nov | Character strings |
| 4 Nov | Binary encoding and an only slightly relevant but highly amusing discussion of digital music formats |
| 8 Nov | Encoding integers |
| 11 Nov | Remembrance Day, no class. |
| 15 Nov | Floating point |
| 18 Nov | ASCII, Unicode, and MATLAB strings |
| 22 Nov | The Von Neumann architecture notes and slides. |
| 25 Nov | ... continued, plus Carpinelli’s Relatively Simple CPU Simulator. |
| 29 Nov | Dr. Phillips away, no class. |
| 2 Dec | A bit more of the Relatively Simple CPU Simulator, errors and error types, and pre-exam words of wisdom. |
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