ME 123 -- Computer Programming

Day	Date	Class Topics	To Do for Next Class
1	Mar 9	Administrative Details Day 1: MATLAB as a calculator Setting up the working directory Basic printing Printing to a file	Exercises Homework template
2	Mar 10	Concept Questions Day 2: Getting help from MATLAB Scripts (m-files) Assignment statements Printing results to a file	Exercises
3	Mar 12	Concept Questions Day 3: Comments Suppressing "ans=" Fancy "fprintf"	Exercises
4	Complete by 3/25	Day 4: "For" loops Tables with "for" loops	Exercises
Spring Break
5	Mar 23	Concept Questions Day 5: Clearing your variables Basic recursive assignment Initialization Fancy recursive assignment	Exercises
6	Mar 24	Concept Questions Day 6: Numerical integration	Exercises
7	Mar 26	Quiz - MOODLE Concept Questions Day 7: A good start for all programs Two kinds of programming errors Debugger tools	Exercises debugthis.m (To download the file, right click on the link and choose "Save Link As.." or "Save Target As") Exercise 1 Blank Table
8	Mar 27	Quiz - MOODLE Day 8: Vectors Defining vectors Other vector commands	Exercises
9	Mar 30	Concept Questions Day 9: Matrices Defining matrices Printing matrices Reading spreadsheet data as matrices	Exercises day9_data.xlsx Exercise 1 Blank Table
10	Mar 31	Concept Questions Day 10: MATLAB plotting concepts Plotting data Adding plots to technical reports Plotting results from formulas Plotting multiple curves "close all"	Exercises
11	Apr 2	Concept Questions Day 11: Basic "if" concepts Relational operators Fancy "if" More practical "if" example User input	Exercises
12	Apr 3	Quiz - MOODLE Day 12: Basic "while" loop Common "while" loop flaws	Exercises
13	Apr 6	Mini-Project 1	Country_names.xls Per_Capita_Data.xls Population_Data.xls (To download the files, right click on the link and choose "Save Link As..." or "Save Target As")
14	Apr 7	Mini-Project 1
15	Apr 9	Mini-Project 1
16	Apr 10	Mini-Project 1 -- Due to Moodle drop-box by 5 PM
17	Apr 13	Day 17: Practice for Exam 1 (see Exercises) Ground Rules for Exam Old Exams	Exercises turb_jet.xls
18	Apr 14	Exam 1: Written Portion
19	Apr 16	Exam 1: Programming Portion
20	Apr 17	Day 20 - Excel: Motivation Inserting rows and columns Average Formatting cells More complicated formulas Plotting	Exercises grade.xlsx rocket.xlsx
21	Apr 20	Day Off!
22	Apr 21	Day Off!
23	Apr 23	Concept Questions Day 21: Special operators Using a colon (:) Element-by-element operations using "."	Exercises
24	Apr 24	Concept Questions Day 22: Functions you know Functions made from a piece of a script Planning a new function	Exercises
25	Apr 27	Day Off!
26	Apr 28	Day Off!
27	Apr 30	Concept Questions Day 23: Understanding variables in functions Using functions to declutter your programs	Exercises Day23_main.m quad_fcn.m
28	May 1	Quiz - MOODLE Day 24: In-class coding session (see Exercises)	Exercises grade_for_functions.xlsx
29	May 4	Mini-Project 2	Save ALL files to the same folder. Roboforth Functions: initialize.m moveto.m pickup.m putdown.m close_out.m Virtual Robot Functions: func_plot_bolt.m func_plot_closed_gripper.m func_plot_cycle_gripper.m func_plot_open_gripper.m func_plot_robot.m func_plot_robot_arm.m Run_the_virtual_robot.m Sample data: bolt_data_1.xlsx bolt_data_2.xlsx
30	May 5	Mini-Project 2
31	May 7	Mini-Project 2
32	May 8	Mini-Project 2	Mini-Project 2 M-files due May 8 by 5pm.
33	May 11	Exam 2: Written Portion
34	May 12	Exam 2: Programming Portion Old Exams
35	May 14	Day 32: Computer representation of integers and floating point numbers Equality checks using integers and floating point numbers Finding floating point values	Exercises
36	May 15	Day 33: Euler background Simple Euler example Review Euler process More complicated Euler example Euler convergence	Exercises
37	May 18	Concept Questions Day 34: Adding air drag Review Euler process Trajectory with drag Euler convergence	Exercises
38	May 19	Concept Questions Day 35: In-class programming practice for Euler (see Exercises)	Exercises
39	May 21	Euler Method Practice for Final Exam	Exercises
40	May 22	Course Evaluations Ground Rules for Final Exam
		Final Exam