Announcements:

2/3/2012 - Paul's office hours on Wednesday, February 8 will be movded to the 1:30pm to 2:30pm slot.

2/3/2012 - Homework 1 was assigned in class at the beginning of this week. It is due on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 11:59pm.

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Instructor:

Teaching Assistants:

• Benjamin Bardin (bab2153@columbia.edu)
  Office Hours: Tuesdays from 1:30pm to 2:30pm and 5:30pm to 6:30pm.

• Marc Howard (mh3203@columbia.edu)
  Office Hours: Wednesdays from 1:30pm to 2:30pm and Thursdays from 4:30pm to 5:30pm.

• Farbound Tai (ft2201@columbia.edu)
  Office Hours: Mondays from 6:00pm to 7:00pm and Fridays from 9:00am to 10:00am.

Class Links:

• Syllabus - General course information, required text books, class topics and schedule.
• Courseworks - Through courseworks you have access to your homework and exam grades (when they are available). Homework assignment solutions will also be available in the "Class Files" section under the folder "Shared Files." If you are registered for the class, you should have access to this site. If you can't access the site please send me a note at pblaer@cs.columbia.edu.
• MATLAB Documentation provided by MathWorks.
• Software - Access to a recent version of MATLAB is required (R2008a or later).
  • Computer Lab Locations - Dell Windows workstations and Mac workstations have a recent version of MATLAB installed. Most labs are not open 24 hours a day, so make sure to check the scheduled hours before heading to the lab.
  • Matlab is available at no cost to students under the Engineering School's site licence. You can download it at http://portal.seas.columbia.edu/matlab/.

Lectures

• Lecture 1 - 1/18/2012: Introduction and a brief history of computing.
• Lecture 2 - 1/23/2012 (section 1) and 1/24/2012 (section 2): Introduction to MATLAB. Basic expressions, operators, and order of precedence. Complex numbers. Different data types (classes) such as logical and char. Use of the class function. Calling functions. Script m-files and their relationship to the command window's workspace.
  Reading: Skim Hanselman Chapters 1-4
• Lecture 3 - 1/25/2012 (section 1) and 1/26/2012 (section 2): Discussed the diary command. Reviewed script m-files. Talked about array creation and concatenation. Introduced matrix operations. Talked about performing matrix operations with a matrix operand and a scalar operand. Talked about the concept of vectorization. Talked about elemental operations and their difference from matrix operations.
  Reading: Start Reading Hanselman Chapter 5
• Lecture 4 - 1/30/2012 (section 1) and 1/31/2012 (section 2): Talked about the \ operator and its use in solving a linear series of equations. Talked about using an index or subscripts to access and/or change a particular element in an array. Talked about using arrays to index or subscript into an array. Talked about the colon operator. Mentioned the randperm, repmat, and reshape functions.
  Reading: Finish Reading Hanselman Chapter 5
• Lecture 5 - 2/1/2012 (section 1) and 2/2/2012 (section 2): Talked about assigning multiple elements of an array at one time. Talked about comparison operators and logical operators. Talked about regular and short circuiting and's and or's. Introduced logical indexing and the find function. Introduced the input function. Started talking about control flow and the if statement.
  Reading: Read Hanselman Chapter 10, Start Reading Hanselman Chapter 11
  Files: Sample files from this lecture can be found here.

Homework Assignments

• Homework 1 - Due at 11:59pm on Friday, February 10, 2012.