MAE 5 "Quantitative Computer Skills" Fall 2007 class is in Center 115 , 8-9:20 am.

Detailed information about the course schedule and homework problem assignments are given in the course outline ( PDF version of course outline requires Acrobat reader version 5 or later). HTML version of course outline is here. **Quiz 7 and quiz 8 will be given October 30 and November 1** Instructions to get True BASIC on campus are here. Example quizzes and lectures can be found in previous course webpages. You can download TB Bronze from the True BASIC website for use with either PCs or Macs to get started (free demos). These versions work for 15 minutes at a time, but can be reloaded any number of times. Garrett Work sent directions to get True Basic Bronze from the UCSD system. Some adjustments to schedules due to fires will be necessary. No labs during Thanksgiving week.

The TA is Christian Deck, 858-534-0882, cdeck@ucsd.edu, 263 EBU2, with sections 1,2,4,5. The Tutor is Dhritiman Kashyap, dkashyap@ucsd.edu, with sections 3,5. Section 6 is dissolved. Sections meet for homework preparation and lab quizzes in the MAE 5 laboratory 205 EBU II. Keep your homework and projects on floppy disks, memory sticks, or CDs for backup. Laboratory sessions start Oct. 2, 2007. Do the first homework set in class and turn it in during your section. The first lecture is Sept. 27and the first quiz Oct. 2. Procedures for submitting your homework and projects will be explained in section by your TA/Tutor.

Guidelines for projects (Project 1: sampleprojectA , sampleprojectB , sampleprojectC, sampleprojectD) (Project 2: spAA, spBB, spCC, spDD)

Detailed Project 2 Guidelines

For those students with home Windows PCs. Getting True BASIC for your machine, transferring files between W-PCs and Macs, distributing programs to friends and relatives (the read me file).

True Basic for use at home is site licensed for the UCSD community and can be obtained by the ftp protocol. You can get practice versions from the True Basic website.

Information about True Basic: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz invented the BASIC programming language in 1964 for use at Dartmouth College. They made it freely available to everyone who wanted to learn how to program computers.

In 1983 they created True BASIC to incorporate and showcase all the exciting new developments they had added to their language, which had now become a world standard. It was designed to be both easy to use for beginners and powerful for advanced programmers. More people in the world use BASIC than any other programming language. The UCSD site licensed True Basic Bronze program (unlimited license for UCSD students and faculty) that you will copy in the laboratory and use in the course is the full-featured language system:

More information about the program can be obtained as follows:

• Download TB Ref freeware about True Basic by Prof. Richard Herz of AMES UCSD .
• The True Basic webpage.
• The True Basic Institute.
• A technical note on graphical objects.
• Web Page for the True BASIC manual
• The GET MOUSE command (as an example). Or click here for the downloaded version.
• Matrix plotting can be handy, and is also not included in Catlin's book.
• For making music, try the PLAY command. For a demo, PLAY "Old Smokey". Put in a print statement like PRINT "a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief" to avoid the intermediate mode in BRONZE.
• Save programs you expect to use often in your personal libraries.
• Changing font sizes and styles within your programs.

Lectures

• week 1,
• week 2,
• week 3,
• week 4,
• week 5,
• week 6,
• week 7,
• week 8,
• week 9,
• week 10.

Quizzes (grades,solution) Class List

• week 1, grades, Q1
• week 2, grades, Q2, Q3
• week 3, grades Q4 , Q5, homework, LQ1
• week 4, grades Q6 , Q7
• week 5, grades, LQ2
• week 6, grades, Q8 , Q9
• week 7, grades, LQ3
• week 8, grades, Q10 , Q11
• week 9, grades, Q12, LQ4, final grades
• week 10 no quizzes, Project 2 due Friday

Final Grades

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