Math Foundations for Informatics @ ASU

Date	Topic	Assignments

14 Jan	Hello! Nuts-n-bolts of the class
16 Jan	Introduction to CPI 200 -- Why is this class important?

21 Jan	MLK Holiday -- No class
23 Jan	Discrete Math : Notes (Updated 10 Feb)

28 Jan	Discrete Math	Download Mathematica
30 Jan	Discrete Math	Play with a notebook: GettingStarted.nb

4 Feb	Discrete Math
6 Feb	Discrete Math

11 Feb	Discrete Math and Take a look at Mathematica	Exercise 1 Assigned
13 Feb	Functions

18 Feb	Discuss Exercise 1; Intro to Computational Basics
20 Feb	Computational Basics: Algorithms, Floating point numbers, Error Notes: See Chapter 2 of Scientific Computing and Visualization (emailed to you) http://www.farinhansford.com/books/scv/index.html Mathematica Example: AlgorithmComplexity.nb	Exercise 1 Due

25 Feb	Computational Basics Con't Mathematica Examples: TruncationError.nb, Cancellation.nb
27 Feb	Computational Basics Con't	Exercise 2 Out Exercise 1 Grades and solution posted
		Course Grade Sheet Posted
3 Mar	J. Wing's Computational Thinking Appeared in Communications of the ACM, March 2006, Vol 49, No. 3 Slides
5 Mar

10 Mar	Spring Break	Exercise 2 Due
12 Mar	Spring Break

17 Mar	Review Exercise 2 solutions Look at article: "Science and Industry Advance with Computational Modeling" by Daniel Reed, SIAM News, March 2008 Functions and their graphs	Exercise 2 Grades posted Course grade sheet updated
19 Mar	Calculus: Notes updated 26 March

24 Mar	Calculus
26 Mar	Calculus Linear Approximation.nb Derivative.nb and Derivative2.nb	Exercise 3 posted

31 Mar	Calculus (bivariate) See notes emailed to you -- "Computing with Multivariate Functions" from Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization
2 Apr	Calculus (bivariate) Bivariate.nb	Exercise 3 due

7 Apr	Analytic Geometry "Coordinate Systems" from Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization (emailed to you) Notation Basics	Exercise 3 Grades Posted
9 Apr	Analytic Geometry Coordinate System notebook	Exercise 4 Posted

14 Apr	Analytic Geometry
16 Apr	Analytic Geometry Transformations2D.pdf	Exercise 4 Due

21 Apr	Visualizing Empirical Data Notes emailed to you -- "Visualizing Empirical Data" from Mathematical Principles for Scientific Computing and Visualization See Wikipedia Standard Deviation for some nice examples. Wolfram Site: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LeastSquaresFitting.html	Exercise 5 Posted
23 Apr	No formal class -- students work on E5	Exercise 4 grades posted

28 Apr	Review CourseReview FYI: Sample Slide Show (presentation) using Mathematica
2 May		Exercise 5 Due

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