Computational Science I

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Computational Science I

• CAAM 420, Fall 2005
• Instructor Tim Warburton

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Course Web Page

• Click on CAAM420 at
• http//www.useme.org
• Or temporarily
• http//www.math.unm.edu/caam420/index.html

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Course Info

• Class location and times
• Monday, Wednesday
• Duncan Hall 1042
• 1100AM - 1150AM
• Friday
• Sewall Hall, Rm 207 (Symmonds I computer lab)
• 1100AM - 1150AM
• Office hours
• Monday, Wednesday (not Friday)
• Duncan Hall 3021
• 100PM to 230PM

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Grade Distribution

• 10 class attendance and participation
• 60 homework assignments
• 30 project work

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Attendance Policy

• I will try make this course as interactive as
  possible.
• Most of the ground covered will be accompanied by
  class based activities.
• It is strongly recommended that you attend all
  classes.
• At least one project will be group based
  non-attendance will negatively effect your grade
  and hinder the performance of your group.

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Computer Code Policy

• Unless otherwise instructed you must only use
  code you have designed and written yourself.
  i.e. you are not allowed to cut and paste, or to
  download or otherwise obtain code from a second
  party without permission.
• When working on group projects you are always
  permitted to share code however, be advised it
  is beneficial to label your own non-trivial
  contributions (to be demonstrated later).
• For any coding you may seek advice from one of
  your fellow CAAM 420 students, but you must
  implement the advice yourself.
• If you find yourself spending many hours on an
  exercise you should seek help from me or your one
  of your fellow students.

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Minimal Homework and Project Standards

• All homework handed in must comply with the
  following format
• Student name at the top right hand corner of
  every page
• Multiple sheets must be typed. You may use MS
  Word or anything else until we learn Latex, then
  every project must be in Latex.
• Structure of your work must be
• Introduction (description of hw problem or
  project)
• Results including graphs, images and diagrams
• Discussion
• Computer code print outs.

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Reading List
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Course Description

• Scientific programming using high level
  languages, including C, Fortran, and C .
• Emphasis on use of numerical libraries.
• Basic techniques of project planning, source
  management, documentation, program construction.
• Basic i/o, data visualization.
• Object-oriented design for numerical computation.
  
• Prerequisites CAAM 210 CAAM 335 or 353, or
  permission of instructor.

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Weekly Themes

• The syllabus for this course is broken into
  weekly themes

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Preliminary Syllabus Part 1
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Preliminary Syllabus Part 2
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Projects

• I will announce the exact form of the projects in
  advance of the time allotted in the Themes.
• I strongly suggest you begin working on the
  project as soon as you have sufficient
  information to hand.
• The Project time allotted in the Themes will be
  free-form lab time. Attendance is again strongly
  advised as no extensions will be granted to
  students with unexcused absences during the lab
  time.

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Homework attempt due 08/26/05(we will go through
this on Friday)

• Make sure you can log on to a unix or linux
  system of your choice, which I will refer to as
  nix from now on.
• (Apply for a ruf or other unix account at
  apply.rice.edu for an account if necessary.)
• Read one of the listed unix quick guides and one
  of the emacs quick guides listed on the next
  page.
• Download the following file to your home
  directory http//www.math.unm.edu/timwar/CAAM420
  /ExerciseA.tar.gz
• Uncompress this file using gzip or gunzip
• Expand the archive with tar
• Navigate in the directory structure to find the
  following file target.text you may wish to use
  the nix command find as this file is well
  hidden.
• Open, edit and save this file with emacs to
  change the name in the file to be your name.
• Use one of the nix mail programs to send only
  the modified file to me.

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Homework Quick References

• Unix
• http//www.rice.edu/it/help/documents/training_doc
  s/index_platform.html
• http//www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
• http//www.unixtools.com/tutorials.html
• http//www.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/tutorials/in
  tro-unix/cheat-sheet.html
• http//wwwtheor.itep.ru/computing/unix.html
• http//www.uni.edu/its/us/document/sun/unixref.htm
  l
• http//www.cs.utk.edu/help/unix/quickref.php
• http//www.decf.berkeley.edu/help/handouts/unix-in
  tro.pdf
• Emacs
• http//www.cs.utah.edu/alee/emacs/emacs_quick.pdf
  
• http//seamons.com/emacs/
• http//rgrjr.dyndns.org/emacs/emacs_cheat.html
• http//www.cat.pdx.edu/tutors/tutorials/tutorials.
  php?gotoemacs

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An Alternatives to Using a nix Account

• If you are a diehard Windows type, or only have
  convenient access to a Windows PC go to
  http//www.cygwin.com and download/install their
  cygwin software.
• Do not install this on a Rice PC !!!!!!!!.
• This emulates a type of nix which runs in a
  window under Windows.