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Transferring Files to and from the Department Server

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Spring 2007

• Assignment #0
  • Update your personal information in both WebAdvisor and Blackboard, then reply to the welcome message on Blackboard.
• Assignment #1
  • Read Integer Types in Matlab and do all of the exercises at the end of the reading.
• Assignment #2
  • Read Decimals and Fractions and do all of the exercises at the end of the reading.
• Supplementary Reading
  • Please read Cleve Moler's Floating Points.
  • For other Matlab articles by this founder and chief scientist of the Mathworks, see Cleve's Corner --- The Mathworks News and Notes.
• Assignment #3
  • Read Floating Point Form and do all of the exercises at the end of the reading.
• Assignment #4
  • Read Floating Point Arithmetic and do all of the odd exercises at the end of the reading.
• Assignment #5
  • Read Vectors in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 16, 19, 23, 25, 27, 29, and 31.
• Assignment #6
  • Read Matrices in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #2, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 25, 26, and 29.
• Assignment #7
  • Read Inverses in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17.
• Assignment #8
  • Read Arrays in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, and 27.
• Assignment #9
  • Read Plotting in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #1, 2, 4, 10, 11, 14, 15, 18, 20, 23, and 24.
• Assignment #10
  • Read Parametric and Polar Equations.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #2, 6, 9, 12, 14, 20, 22, 26, and 32.
• Assignment #11
  • Read Surfaces in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #2, 4, 8, 12, 14, and 16.
• Assignment #12
  • Read Parametric Surfaces in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #2, 4, 8, 12, and 14.
• Assignment #13
  • Read Space Curves in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #2, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14.
• Assignment #14
  • Read Logical Arrays in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #2, 6, 7, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 22, 24, 28, 34, 38, and 40.
• Assignment #15
  • Read Control Structures in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 14.
• A Sample of Well Commented Source Code
  • Please read the fortran source code sgtsv.f. Pay careful attention to the liberal use of comments in the source.
• Assignment #16
  • Read Functions in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #3, 6, 9, 12, 14, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, and 29.
• Assignment #17
  • Read Variable Scope in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #1-6.
• Assignment #18
  • Read Subfunctions in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercise #3.
• Assignment #19
  • Read Nested Functions in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do any 3 exercises that do not have answers. Note that the answers are ``live links'' to fully working programs. Click the links to download the programs.
• Assignment #20
  • Read Zeros in Matlab.
  • At the end of the reading, do exercises #3, 6, 5, 10, 17, 18, 21, and 22.