Lecture materials
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| No. | Date | Topics | Lecture Slides | Program Examples | Reading (Insight) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/21 Tu | Introduction | Slides | Preface & Software sections | |
| 2 | 1/23 Th | Programming basics | Slides | sphereArea.m, diffArea.m | 1.1, Exercise 1 |
| 3 | 1/28 Tu | Conditionals | Slides | 1.2 | |
| 4 | 1/30 Th | Nested conditionals; logical operators | Slides | quadMin.m, quadMinGraph.m, Eg1_2.m from Insight | 1.2 |
| 5 | 2/4 Tu | Iteration: for | Slides | stickExp.m, showForLoop.m, ave10.m, mcPi.m |
2.1 MatTV: Troubleshooting Loops |
| 2/4 Tu | Project 1 due | ||||
| 6 | 2/6 Th | Iteration: while | Slides | areaCircle.m | 2.2, 3.2 |
| 7 | 2/11 Tu | Developing algorithms; nested loops | Slides |
drawDemo.m,
nestedStars.m
moreNestedStars.m,
mTable.m User-defined functions: DrawRect.m and DrawStar.m from Insight; DrawDisk.m |
3.1 |
| 8 | 2/13 Th | User-defined functions | Slides | piFrac.m, nestedLoops.m, polar2xyScript.m, polar2xy.m | 5.1, 5.2 |
| 9 | 2/18 Tu | Executing a user-defined function | Slides | randDouble.m, polar2xy.m, drawColorDot.m, dotsInRingsScript.m |
5.3 MatTV: Executing a Function |
| 2/17 M | Project 2 due | ||||
| 10 | 2/20 Th | Vectors, simulation | Slides | plotComparison2.m | 6.1 |
| 2/25 Tu | February Break | ||||
| 11 | 2/27 Th | Probability and averages, vectors |
Loop patterns for vectors [video] Slides | Centralize.m, testCentralize.m, rollDie.m, rollDieV1.m, RandomWalk2D.m, ShowRW.m | 6.2, 6.3 |
| 12 | 3/3 Tu | Discrete vs. continuous; linear interpolation | Slides | xenoDisks.m, threeFadingDisks.m, fadingXenoDisks.m, rowsOfXenoDisks.m | 4.1–4.3 |
| 3/4 W | Project 3 due | ||||
| 13 | 3/5 Th | Vectorized computation, 2-d Arrays—matrix | Slides | plotComparison.m, minInMatrix.m | 7.1 |
| 14 | 3/10 Tu | Matrix examples | Slides | Cheapest.m, ShowCheapest.m, RandomLinks.m | 7.2, 7.3 |
| 3/10 Tu | Prelim 1 7:30 – 9:00pm | ||||
| 15 | 3/12 Th | Working with Images (Vectorized code on multi-dimensional array) |
Slides | RandomLinks.m, ShowRandomLinks.m, pictureFrame.m, pictureFrame2.m, pictureFrameV.m | 12.1, 12.2 |
| 3/28-4/5 | Spring Break | ||||
| 16 | 4/7 Tu | Working with Images (arithmetic in type uint8) |
Slides | LawSchool.jpg, showMirror.m, showToGrayscale.m, LawSchoolNoise.jpg MedianFilter.m, showFilter.m | 12.4 |
| 17 | 4/9 Th | Character arrays, linear search | Slides | aminoAcidCounts.m, getMnemonic.m, getAAIndex.m | 9.1 |
| 4/13 M | Project 4 due | ||||
| 18 | 4/14 Tu | Cell array | Slides |
linearSearch,
analyzeLinearSearch.m CardDeck.m, Deal.m, Shuffle.m |
8.1, 11.1, 11.2 Cell/Struct Syntax Summary |
| 19 | 4/16 Th | File I/O, sort() |
Slides |
file2cellArray.m,
cellArray2file.m,
population.m,
statePop.txt issYear.m, norad.txt |
9.2, 11.1, 11.2 |
| 20 | 4/21 Tu | Objects and Classes | Slides |
Interval.m,
demoInterval0.m
Optional: demoPlotObj.m |
Why object-oriented design? Role of classes |
| 4/21 Tu | Test 2A | ||||
| 21 | 4/23 Th | Class definition—properties & methods | Slides | Interval.m, demoInterval1.m, demoInterval2.m | |
| 22 | 4/28 Tu | Array of objects, overloading, constructor that handles variable number of args | Slides | Interval.m, intervalArray.m, widestInterval.m, LocalWeather.m, ithacaWeather.txt | |
| 23 | 4/30 Th | Why OOP? Private vs. public, Inheritance |
Slides
Die & TrickDie pdf |
Die.m, TrickDie.m, demoDice.m | OOP syntax summary |
| 4/30 Th | Project 5 due | ||||
| 24 | 5/5 Tu | Recursion | Slides | removeChar_loop.m, removeChar.m, removeChar2.m MeshTriangle.m, showMeshTriangle.m | 14.1 |
| 5/5 Tu | Test 2B | ||||
| 25 | 5/7 Th | Sort and search | Slides | insertionSortSimple.m, InsertionSort.m, ShowInsertionSort.m, InsertionSortIntervals.m, demoSortIntervals.m, see Interval.m and intervalArray.m from previous lectures. binarySearch.m, showBinarySearch.m, recursiveBinarySearch.m | 8.2, 9.2, 9.3 |
| 26 | 5/12 Tu | Divide and Conquer | Slides | merge.m, mergeSort.m, showMergeSort.m, insertSortInplace.m, comopareInsertMerge.m | 14.2, 14.3 |
| 5/12 Tu | Project 6 due | ||||
| 5/18 M | Final Exam | ||||
