September Lectures

Week of September 13-17

Sep 13: course intro.
Sep 15: Unix: intro.
Tutorial: C: editing, compiling, comments, directives, preprocessing.

Week of September 20-24

Sep 20: integration methods: midpoint, trapezoidal, Simpsons' rule.
Sep 22: more on integration methods and analysis.
Tutorial: C: basic data types, variables and declarations, numerical and logical expressions, selection statements, loops.

Week of September 27 - October 1

Sep 27: Root finding: introduction; intermediate value theorem; bisection method.
Sep 29: Bisection method: error; convergence; discussion about Assignment 1.
Tutorial: C: functions, input/output, arrays, and pointers.