MAE 5 Quantitative Computer Skills Spring 2012 class is in HSS 1330 , 8-9:20 am.

Detailed information about the course schedule and homework problem assignments are given in the course outline.

Instructor: Carl H. Gibson , MAE and SIO Departments, cgibson@ucsd.edu

Teaching Assistant: David Szeto <daszeto@ucsd.edu>, all Sections.

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 on April 10. The first lecture is April 3. The first quiz is April 5. Do the first homework set in class and turn it in during your section. Procedures for submitting your homework and projects will be explained in section by your TA.

(the following material is from previous classes)

Guidelines for projects

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). A PC laboratory in EBII 2003 is available for MAE 5. For students with home Macs (the read me file). For students without floppy drives on their personal computers but with CD drives, a disk has been burned with the True Basic & TB Ref for home files that you can borrow. Project #1 is due Friday 11 February, 2004, for all sections. Project #2 is due Friday 11 March, 2004 for all sections.

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, LQ1
• week 4, grades Q6 , Q7
• week 5, grades, LQ2
• week 6, grades, Q8 , Q9
• week 7, LQ3
• week 8, grades, Q10 , Q11
• week 9, Q12, LQ4 grades
• week 10 no quizzes

Final Grades

Help

• Functions
• Statements
• Terms

The psychologists corner.