Welcome to the personal course notes for Vince Knight’s Computing for Mathematics class

The class notes are available here: https://vknight.org/cfm/

• Class meetings
  • Week 01: Introduction
    • Pre: Discussing programming + teaching approach
    • Lab: Installation of software assistance
    • Post: Installation issues and jupyter demo
  • Week 02: Variables, Conditional Statements and Loops
    • Pre: Demo of Bisection Method
    • Lab: Variables, Conditional Statements and Loops Lab Sheet
    • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
  • Week 03: Data Structures and Functions
    • Pre: Demo of creating a random number generator
    • Lab: Data Structures and Functions
    • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
  • Week 04: Lab Sheet 03: Reading and writing to file and recursion
    • Pre: Demo of Collatz conjecture
    • Lab: Reading and writing to file, recursion and algorithms
    • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
  • Week 05: Lab Sheet 04: Object Oriented Programming
    • Pre: Demo of group theory exercise
    • Lab: Object Oriented Programming
    • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
  • Week 06: Symbolic mathematics
    • Pre: Demo of Sympy
    • Lab: Symbolic Mathematics
    • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
  • Week 07: Library Toolkit
    • Pre: Demo of libraries
    • Lab: Overview of Python libraries
    • Post: Library research skill session?
  • Week 08: Produce code
    • Pre: Review of all programming concepts
    • Lab: Feedback on their own code
    • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
  • Week 09: LaTeX refresher
    • Pre: LaTeX Refresher + Writing Mathematics
    • Lab: Start writing
    • Post: Reactive discussion + peer exercise
  • Week 10: Finishing
    • Pre: Critically discuss some of the writing of the previous pieces
    • Lab: Finishing/identification of difficulties
    • Post: Peer review of first draft
  • Week 11: Slack
• For Tutors
  • Guidance

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