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DATE

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NOTES

Course overview

Aug 27

Chapter 1

lec1-aug27-09.ppt

Overview (contd), Matlab basics

Aug 31

Chapter 2

lec2-sept1-09.ppt

Strings, Boolean, simple plot

Sept 3

Chapter 3

lec3-sept3-09.ppt

Arrays, matrices and structures

Sept 8

Chapter 4

lec4-sept8-09.ppt

Arrays, matrices and structures (continued)

Sept 10

Chapter 4

lec5-sept10-09.ppt

Arrays, matrices and structures (continued)

Sept 15

Chapters 4 & 5

lec6-sept15-09.ppt

Chapter 4 completed, functions (started)

Sept 17

Chapter 4

lec7-sept17-09.ppt

Scripts, files and functions

Sept 22

Chapter 6

lec8-sept22-09.ppt

Scripts, files and functions (continued)

Sept 27

Chapters 5 & 6

 

branching

Sept 29

Chapter 7

lec9-sept29-09.ppt

Loops and iterations

Oct 1

Chapter 8

lec10-oct1-09.ppt

Loops and iterations (continued)

Oct 6

Chapter 8

lec10-oct1-09.ppt

MID-TERM # 1

Oct 8

Chapters 1 to 8

All of the above

Functions

Oct 13

Chapter 8

lec12-oct15-09.ppt

Furlough day – No class

Oct 15

 

 

Cells, recursion

Oct 20

Chapter 4, 13

lec13-oct20-09.ppt

Cells, recursion (continued)

Oct 22

Chapter 4, 13

lec14-oct22-09.ppt

More recursion, structures in Matlab

Oct 27

 

lec15-oct27-09.ppt

Binary search trees

Oct 29, Nov 3

 

Lecture 16

Hashing, probability basics

Nov 8, Nov 10

 

Lecture 17

Probability basics, generating random objects with specified distribution

Nov  12, Nov 17

 

Lecture 18

Generating from specified distribution,

Discrete event simulation

Nov 19

Ross

Lecture 19

FURLOUGH, NO CLASS

Nov 24

 

 

THANKSGIVING, NO CLASS

Nov 26

 

 

Discrete event simulation

Dec 1

Ross

 

Markov chains

Dec 3

 

 

Markov chain – application to pagerank algorithm

Dec 8

Chris Moler’s book chapter

 

Course summary and review

Dec 10