MS6021 Scientific Computing

• Updated 19-Nov-2020


 

MS6021 SULIS site:

• In addition to this website, some files and recordings (not publicly available), will be published at SULIS. ​ Various announcements will be made via SULIS as well.

Course Materials:

• 2020 MATERIALS (subject to change):



 
• Lecture+Course-Work+Assignment #1 (29-Sep-2020; assignment due end of Week 3)
• Lecture+Course-Work+Assignment #2 (12-Oct-2020; assignment due end of Week 6)
• Lecture+Course-Work+Assignment #3 (5-Nov-2020; assignment due by Wed of Week 9)
• Lecture+Course-Work+Assignment #4 (19-Nov-2020; due by Wed of Week 11)
• Intro to Python (4-Nov-2019)
• Lecture+Course-Work+Assignment #5 (19-Nov-2020; due end of Week 13)

MatLab links:

• An Introduction to Matlab by David F. Griffiths, University of Dundee.
• Programming for Computations - MATLAB/Octave by Svein Linge and Hans Petter Langtangen (Springer Open Access).
• Some of William Lee's Worksheets: #1 (Hello MatLab) , #4 (Matrices in MatLab) , #9 (Sparse Matrices) .
• ALSO



 
• ​Yet Another Guide TO Matlab by Matt Dunham and Kevin Murphy, University of British Columbia.
• A Matlab Cheat-sheet (MIT 18.06, Fall 2007).
• Octave (open-source high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations, quite similar to Matlab so that most programs are easily portable).

Python links:

• Install Anaconda

Assessment:

• 5 Assignments, each worth between 15% and 25%.
• NO final exam => you will have to WORK very HARD during the semester!