CSC270 Lecture Outlines - January
January 5
- course information, syllabus, and policies
January 7 - C
Read everything on the Web page
Read King chapters 1 and 2
January 9 - C
Read King 2.4, 2.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
- numeric expressions, variables, assignment
January 12 - Integration methods
Course notes: second section, pages 421-426, 427-429, 432-438
January 14 - Integration analysis
Course notes: second section, pages 427-428
My lecture notes in library
See the integration applet!
- Compound Simpsons rule (many intervals)
- Taylor polynomial
- Residual = integral(Taylor) - numerical integration result
- halving the interval decreases error by 8 (Riemann) or 32 (Simpson)
January 16 - C
King 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
- Logical expressions
- Conditionals
- Statements, compound statements
- Loops: while, do, for
January 19 - C functions
King 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
- Online notes
- function template
- prototypes
- parameters
- void
- declaration-before-use and prototypes
January 21 - C
King 10.4, 7.5, 7.6, 8, 14.3
- Online notes
- Call-by-value
- Variable scope
- Type conversion, casting
- Macros
- Arrays
January 23 - C
King 4.3, 2.5, 6.4, page 72
- Online notes
- Pre- and Post- Increment and Decrement
- Conditional Expressions
- Reading input with scanf
- Loops and `break'
January 26 - Root Finding
- See
the applet
- Functions & roots
- Intermediate value theorem
- Bisection method
- Rate of convergence of bisection method
January 28 - More Root Finding
- Online notes
- Mean value theorem
- Taylor series
- Newton's method
- Secant method
January 30 - C
February's notes