• Q5 - REVIEW QUIZ -- covers all previous material

6W -- Wed, Oct 5

• summary of introduction to numerical methods
  • algebraic results are not necessarily equivalent to computational results
  • never compare two real's for equality, rather agree on "close enough"
  • always trap
    • division by zero
    • overflow
    • bad arguments to library functions, e.g., ln(-2), sqrt(-3)
    • use explict casting
  • Fencepost problems

• Web Part III (due this Friday)

• Lab5 -- Publishing on the Web (bring your Word file holding your paper to lab).
  Resources:
  The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
  HTML Primer.

  Arachnophilia web editor (Windows only)

  MacOS users: PageSpinner.

6F -- Fri, Oct 7

• Web Part III due today
• your reviews of other papers due next Friday

• "errors of the third kind" from Real Computing Made Real by Forman S. Acton

October Break

7W -- Wed, Oct 12

• a3 spec ready; due Fri., Oct. 21

• input and output Files and C++ streams

• character input (get) and manipulation - ASCII character code

• Encryption - PGP

• Lab6: Linear Regression: The Power to Predict

7F -- Fri, Oct 14

• Peer reviews due for Web Part III are due today

• Guest Speaker

• Q6 -- covers loops, files and character input/output and manipulation

• Reading
• introduction to user-defined functions
• Quick Check, Exam Prep

8W -- Wed, Oct 19

• chatting about NVGP; loops revisited ...
• more functions

• Lab7 -- a small suite of your own Functions

8F -- Fri, Oct 21

• a3 due

• see Monday's reading
• more functions and pass-by-value

• Q7 -- covers pass-by-value only (see Monday's reading)

• Can you (re)do your quiz5 and quiz6 and score well?

9W -- Wed, Oct 26

• a4 spec is ready (due Friday, Nov. 4)
• more on Software Engineering, Program4, and Lab7: Approximating e(x) in Logical Steps (in lab today)
• documenting your functions

• Lab8 -- Working on the Approximation of e(x) in Logical Steps

9F -- Fri, Oct. 28

• Last day to drop a class.

• Base2, Binary peeking (see 1058 Powers of Two)

10M -- Mon, Oct. 31 (boo)

• Advising Week ...

• Q8 - covers number bases and reference parameters revisited (see 9M and 9F entries)