Syllabus
& Handouts

Week 1: February 2 – 6

• Welcome to CS112!
• course administration
• scientific computation
• Reading: pages 1-7,12
• Assignment 0 due
• 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

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

Week 2: February 9 – 13

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

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

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

Week 3: February 16 – 20

   Presidents' Day

• 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 23 – 27

• 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
• Slides

Week 5: March 2 – 6

• MATLAB search path
• for loops
• Reading: Sect. 8.1, 8.2, 8.5
• search path slides
• loops slides
• Practice Exam 1
• Exam 1 information

• review for Exam 1

• optional inputs
• nested for loops
• making animations
• Reading: Sect. 8.7
• Assignment 3 due
• Slides

Week 6: March 9 – 13

• EXAM #1 -- in class

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

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

Week 7: March 16 – 20

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

• program design
• Assignment 5 out

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

March 23 – March 27: Spring Break

Week 8: March 30 – April 3

• 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

Week 9: April 6 – April 10

• Review

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

• Review
• Assignment 6 due

Week 10: April 13 – 17

• selecting/sorting data
• Final Project Phase One due
• Slides

• review for Exam 2
• Bingo answers

• 3-D visualization
• Reading: pp. 358-371, 378-381
• Assignment 7 due
• Exam 2 coverage
• Practice Exam 2
• Slides

Week 11: April 20 – 24

   Patriots' Day

• EXAM #2 -- in class

• colormaps
• numbers and images
• slides

Week 12: April 27 – May 1

• problem solving with recursion
• recursive functions
• Slides

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

• trees
• Slides

Week 13: May 4 – 8

• Review

• recursive pictures
• color images and colormaps

• decision trees
• Final Project
  Phase Two due
• Slides

Week 14: May 11 – 15

• MATLAB beyond CS112
• Plots page

• project presentations
• Assignment 8 due

Reading Period: May 14 – 17

Final Exams: May 18 – 22

Final Projects Due