MCS 320 course content
FINAL EXAM in SEO 1200 on Thursday 5 May from 10:30 to 12:30
Lecture notes will be posted here.
- L-1: Introduction to Computer Algebra,
Maple worksheet.
- L-2: Getting Started and Getting Help,
Maple worksheet.
- L-3: Exact and Floating-Point Numbers ,
Maple worksheet.
- L-4: Algebraic and Complex Numbers ,
Maple worksheet.
- L-5: Assignment and Unassignment ,
Maple worksheet.
- L-6: Evaluation and Names of Variables,
Maple worksheet.
- L-7: Types, Attributes, and Properties,
Maple worksheet.
- L-8: Input/Output Formats and Files,
Maple worksheet.
- L-9: Code Generation;
the file hello.dll (for Windows);
Maple worksheet.
Lecture 10 on Wednesday 2 February was postponed to Friday because of snow.
Course materials will be shifted accordingly: first review and midterm exam
will happen respectively on Wednesday 16 and Friday 18 February.
- L-10: Univariate and Multivariate Polynomials,
Maple worksheet.
- L-11: Rational Expressions and Conversions,
Maple worksheet.
- L-12: Internal Representation of Expressions,
Maple worksheet.
- L-13: Substitution, Expansion, and Factorization,
Maple worksheet.
- L-14: Normalizing, Collecting, and Sorting,
Maple worksheet.
- R-1: review of the first 14 lectures,
Maple worksheet.
- E-1: First Midterm Exam
with answers
and DAG (answer to problem 4).
- L-21: Sequence, Set, and List,
Maple worksheet.
- L-22: Array, Table, and Conversions,
Maple worksheet.
- L-23: The assume facility and simplification,
Maple worksheet.
- L-24: Two dimensional plots,
Maple worksheet.
- L-25: Three dimensional plots,
Maple worksheet.
- L-26: solving equations,
Maple worksheet.
- L-27: differential equations
and linear algebra,
Maple worksheet.
- R-2: review of lectures 15 to 28,
Maple worksheet.
- E-2: Second Midterm Exam
with answers, and
Maple worksheet.
Part VI: Introduction to Sage
Review
Final Exam: Thursday 5 May 2011, 10:30AM-12:30PM, in 1200 SEO.