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Time/place | Tue/Thu 11:00am--12:15pm 0027/1025 Campus Instructional Facility / Catalog |
Class URL | https://bit.ly/cs450-f21 |
Class recordings | Illinois Mediaspace |
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Older quizzes
You can also find past quizzes under their corresponding lecture in the class calendar.
Please find information on our upcoming exams in the corresponding section of the class calendar. Reserve your time slots in the testing facility as soon as possible--otherwise your preferred times may no longer be available.
CAUTION!
These scribbled PDFs are an unedited reflection of what I wrote during class. They need to be viewed in the context of the class discussion that led to them. See the lecture videos for that.
If you would like actual, self-contained class notes, look in the outline above.
These scribbles are provided here to provide a record of our class discussion, to be used in perhaps the following ways:
By continuing to read them, you acknowledge that these files are provided as supplementary material on an as-is basis.
Michael T. Heath, Revised Second Edition, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Also see our class Piazza forum for a discount code for purchasing the book from SIAM.
We will be using Python with the libraries numpy, scipy and matplotlib for in-class work and assignments. No other languages are permitted. Python has a very gentle learning curve, so you should feel at home even if you've never done any work in Python.
While running code in this online system should technically suffice to do your work for this class, you may find it useful to also install Python on your own computer.
The recommended and perhaps one of the easier ways of doing so involves downloading the Anaconda Python distribution. Note that this is a commercial product (even if it is free of charge), and this is not intended as an endorsement of the company or the product. Note that we cannot promise to provide technical support for this installation.
Another way to obtain a Python installation is through a virtual machine image:
(see section 1 of the outline for more)
(see section 1 of the outline for more)