Syllabus
& Handouts

Week 1: January 28 – February 1

• Welcome to CS112!
• course administration
• scientific computation
• Reading: pages 1-7,12
• Slides

• introduction to MATLAB
• accessing course software
• Reading: pages 15-19

• variables and assignment
• numbers and text
• Reading: pages 19-22,25,35-41
• Slides

Week 2: February 4 – 8

• collections of numbers
• vectors
• plotting 2-D graphs
• Reading: Section 3.3
• Slides

• collections of numbers
• vector operations
• 2-D graphs
• Assignment 1 out

• conditional expressions
• if statement
• Reading: Sect. 3.4, 3.5, pages 133-134
• Slides

Week 3: February 11 – 15

• indexing
• logical vectors for selection
• Reading: Section 4.1
• Slides

• precedence
• conditional expressions
• indexing
• MAT files
• subplots
• Assignment 2 out

• matrices
• tables of data
• images
• Reading: Section 4.2
• Assignment 1 due
• Slides

Week 4: February 18 – 22

• more on matrices
• tables of data
• creating images
• Slides

• matrices
• tables of data
• images
• Assignment 3 out

• user-defined functions
• Reading: Sect. 6.1, 6.2
• Assignment 2 due
• Practice Exam 1
• Exam 1 information
• Slides

Week 5: February 25 – 29

• MATLAB search path
• for loops
• Reading: Sect. 8.1, 8.2, 8.5
• search path slides
• loops slides

• review for Exam 1
• Assignment 3 due Thursday at noon

• EXAM #1 -- in class

Week 6: March 3 – 7

• optional inputs
• nested for loops
• making animations
• Reading: Sect. 8.7
• Slides

• curve fitting tool
• functions
• loops
• Assignment 4 out

• while loops
• program design
• Reading: Sect. 8.3, 8.4, 8.8
• Slides

Week 7: March 10 – 14

• structures
• properties
• subfunctions
• creating GUIs
• Reading: pp. 81-82, 208-209
• Slides

• program design
• Assignment 5 out

• GUI programming
• Final Project out
• Assignment 4 due
• Slides

Week 8: March 17 – 21

• string processing
• cell arrays
• Reading: 42-44, 56-57, 100-101
• Slides

• GUIs: sketchpad
• Assignment 6 out

• cell arrays
• reading/writing files
• Reading: Section 4.3
• Assignment 5 due
• Slides

March 24 – 28: Spring Break

Week 9: March 31 – April 4

• reading/writing files
• selecting/sorting data
• Slides

• string processing
• cell arrays
• file input and output
• Assignment 7 out

• selecting/sorting data
• Assignment 6 due
• Exam 2 coverage
• Practice Exam 2
• Slides

Week 10: April 7 – 11

• selecting/sorting data
• 3-D visualization
• Reading: pp. 358-371, 378-381
• Final Project Phase One due
• Slides

• review for Exam 2
• Bingo answers
• Assignment 7 due Thursday at 1:30

• EXAM #2 -- in class

Week 11: April 14 – 18

• 3-D visualization
• colormaps
• numbers and images
• slides

• 3-D visualization
• working with databases
• Assignment 8 out

• problem solving with recursion
• recursive functions
• Slides

Week 12: April 21 – 25

   Monday schedule

• recursive pictures
• color images and colormaps

• error handling
• Slides

Week 13: April 28 – May 2

• statistics toolbox

• Ruhlman Conference

• 2-D visualization
• interactive plot tool
• Final Project
  Phase Two due
• Plots page

Week 14: May 5 – 9

• MATLAB beyond CS112

• project presentations
• Assignment 8 due

Reading Period: May 8 – 12

Final Exams: May 13 – 19

Final Projects Due