Course Outline-MAE 5
Quantitative Computer Skills
Fall Quarter: September 25 to December 12, 2008

Times and places: Lecture: A00 TuTh 8 -9:20 am, Center Hall 214; Lab. Sects. EBU2 205: A01 Tu 9:30-11, A02 W 10-11:50, A03 W 1-2:50, A04 Th 11-1:25, A05 Th 2-3:50, A06 F 9-10:50, A07 F 2-3:50
Course Code: 633410-633416
Instructor: Carl H. Gibson, Professor of Engineering Physics and Oceanography, 575 EBU2, 534-3184. Email, cgibson@ucsd.edu; WebPage http://sdcc3.ucsd.edu/~ir118. Office hours before and after lectures in Center Hall 214.
Teaching Assistant/Reader: Chris Okada, cokada@yahoo.com, (310) 897-7630, with sections TBA and Matt Grinsberg, with sections TBA.
Textbook: Avery Catlin, True Basic Press. Let's Program It ... in True Basic 1996. Available in bookstore.
Course Description: Introductory course for non-engineering majors. Use of computers in solving problems; applications from life science, physical science, and engineering. Students run existing computer programs and complete some programming in BASIC. Detailed information is given in the course webpage (http://www-acs.ucsd.edu/~ir118). No final, no labs week of Sept. 25. Homework and projects are due the week after they are assigned.
Grading: Quizzes given during lectures and labs count 5% each (total 50%: top 8 Qs plus top 2 LQs). Bring green scantron forms #882-ES to lectures and labs. Homework sets are due weekly as clearly labeled files (e. g.: A01-HW1 Doe, Jane) before the beginning of section the week after assignment, count 4% each (total 20%: top 5). Two projects count 15% each (total: 30%). Discussion between students of all class work is permitted and encouraged but presentation of copied work as original is forbidden. Late homework is not accepted. Check webpage for homework and quiz hints.

Schedule

Schedule:

MEXY=Modified EXamplePrograms Ch. Y, PP2.1,2=Practice Programs 2.1 and 2.1