CSC 260S - Introduction to Scientific, Symbolic, and Graphical Computation

Tutors	Tutorial Room	Student's surname
Ovidiu Calin	MP 103	A - K
Theo Garefalakis	SS 1086	L - Z

Current announcements

This space will be used for announcements. Check it regularly.

• My account for issues related with this course is daniel@cdf.toronto.edu
  Please, do not write to any of my other accounts. Thanks!
• Final grades for the course were posted in SF2303A on Monday May 8.

General Information

• Most handouts are in postcript format. If you don't have a software to view postscript files, you may download a ghostview software.
• The general information handout for the course is in text and in postcript formats.
• Tentative lecture schedule (html file) as of January 2, 2000 (before classes start).
  The actual material covered in each lecture is below (under lectures per month).
• Previous webpages for this course: Spring 1999, Spring 1995.
• An errata for the textbook is available (postscript file).
• A list of Maple books (text file).
• Find old exams for this course.

Policies

• on plagiarism (html file)
• on remarking (html file)
• on missed-midterm (html file)
• on lateness (html file)

Lecture notes

• The slides we are using in lectures were prepared by Radford Neal (postcript files):
  • Jan 3, Jan 10, Jan 17, Jan 24 Jan 31
  • Feb 7, Feb 21, Feb 28
  • Mar 6, Mar 13/20, Mar 27, Apr 3
• Tutorial notes:
  • Jan 10 (text file)
  • Jan 17/24 (postcript file); this tutorial notes were prepared by Eugene Fiume.
  • Jan 31 (postcript file); this tutorial notes were prepared by Eugene Fiume.
  • Feb 21 (postcript file); also Example 2.2 in page 77 of the textbook was covered.
  • Mar 6 (text file)
  • Mar 20/27 (postcript file); this tutorial notes were prepared by Eugene Fiume.
• Introductory Maple hints (postcript files) by Radford Neal.
• Some useful links obtained from the internet using searching engines:
  • Maple: Waterloo Maple;
  • Unix: commands, a helper page, a manual page;
  • Emacs: manual + FAQ.
• Script to see the code of maple functions.

Lectures per month

• January 2000 (html file)
• February 2000 (html file)
• March/April 2000 (html file)

Assignments

• Assignment 1 (postcript file).
  The new deadline is Monday January 31, 7:10 PM (beginning of lecture).
• Assignment 2 (postcript file), the clamped cubic spline handout (postcript file),
  the piecewise linear interpolation example (save this file, and see it with ghostview),
  and the curves of question 3b.
  The deadline is Monday March 13, 6:10 PM (beginning of tutorial).
• Assignment 3 (postcript file).
  The deadline is Monday March 27, 7:10 PM (beginning of lecture).

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