Fall, 1997
Fall, 1997
The final will be an open book, dead source exam.
It will be held from
8-10AM on Thursday, December 18 in
CB 343.
By class vote, the midterm was a take home exam.
It was given out in class on October 21 and was be due by 3PM on
October 23 in 325 McVey Hall.
Please consult the syllabus, which is online.
If you are curious, the Ombud sent the faculty a
long list of the required material that is supposed
to be in the syllabus (I scanned the original, which fits on 2 sides of a
piece of paper).
The assignments are online, too. Below is a cumulative list of what has been
assigned, when they are/were due, and any followup information.
| Assignment | Due | Link | Solution Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 11 | a1.html | a1ans.html |
| 2 | September 25 | a2.html | |
| 3 | October 2 | a3.html | a3ans.html |
| 4 | October 21 | a4.html | |
| 5 | November 4 | a5.html | a5ans.html |
| 6 | November 6 | a6.html | a6ans.html |
| 7 | November 20 | a7.html | a7ans.html |
| 8 | December 12 | a8.html | a8ans.html |
Numerical analysts need to know Fortran in order to read old codes and
re-use them. Translators (e.g., f2c or c++2j) produce sufficiently
bad code as to make the translation unusable from a wall clock point of
view.
This does not mean that all numerical analysts should program only in
Fortran.
Many applications are better suited to Ada, Matlab, Lisp, C, C++, or Java.
This course will use Matlab or a clone whenever a programming assignment is
necessary unless stated otherwise. The Free Software Foundation supports a
Matlab clone called Octave.
Octave works on the following platforms: Linux, OSF/Alpha, HPUX, SUNOS, and
AIX. If you have a Windows 95/NT based PC, you might consider purchasing the
student edition
of Matlab from Prentice-Hall. There are almost no Matlab software keys at
UK except in the engineering division (where there are hundreds).
There is a lot of software associated with the textbook. A
gzipped, tar file is available.
Also, I have unpacked all of the files into a subdirectory
mathews if you are having difficulty with the
gzipped tar file.
Cheers,
Craig C. Douglas