Course Content

The final exam happens on Friday 2 August, from 2pm till 3:40pm.

For our introduction to symbolic computation, we will use the free and open source software SageMath.

There is no textbook for this course, lecture notes are available

The lecture notes are still a work in progress...

As a reference, you could take a look at Sage for Undergraduates written by Gregory V. Bard.
Another reference is the Sage for Power Users written by William Stein.

Slides of the lectures and Jupyter notebooks will be posted below.

Part One: First Steps

Monday 10 June 2024
- L-1 Welcome to MCS 320, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-2 the Jupyter notebook a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Wednesday 12 June 2024
- L-3: getting started and getting help, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-4: exact and floating-point numbers, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Friday 14 June 2024
- L-5: complex and algebraic numbers, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-6: symbols, names, and references, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Monday 17 June 2024
- L-7: numbers and functions, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-8: evaluation and execution, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Friday 21 June 2024
- L-9: persistent data and serialization, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-10: vectorization and Cython, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube

Monday 1 July 2024
- first midterm exam first version Jupyter notebook with questions and answers
- first midterm exam second version Jupyter notebook with questions and answers

Wednesday 3 July 2024
- L-19: defining mathematical functions, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-20: recursive functions and memoization, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Friday 5 July 2024
- L-21: computing with functions, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-22: symbolic and numeric differentiation, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Monday 8 July 2024
- L-23: integration and summation, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-24: series and approximations, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Wednesday 10 July 2024
- L-25: symbolic-numeric computing, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube

Wednesday 10 July 2024
- L-26: two dimensional plots, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Friday 12 July 2024
- L-27: three dimensional plots, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-28: animating plots, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Monday 15 July 2024
- L-29: solving equations, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-30: linear algebra, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Wednesday 17 July 2024
- L-31: differential equations, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-32: optimization, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Friday 19 July 2024
- L-33: interactive web pages, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
  an interactive web page; based on a template page.
- L-34: an application of interact, a Jupyter notebook,
  a fourbar mechanism

Wednesday 24 July 2024
- second midterm exam first version Jupyter notebook with questions and answers
- second midterm exam second version Jupyter notebook with questions and answers

Friday 26 July 2024
- L-39: symbolic computing with SymPy, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-40: numeric computing with NumPy and SciPy, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Monday 29 July 2024
- L-41: symbolic computing with Julia, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-42: parallel computing in Julia, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
Wednesday 31 July 2024
- L-43: review three for the final exam, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube
- L-44: review four for the final exam, a Jupyter notebook, prerecording on youtube

The final exam happens on Friday 2 August, from 2pm till 3:40pm.