CS 1173 Computation for Scientists and Engineers
Resources

• Reviews, explanations and practice:
  • Hand calculation worksheet (HW2): practice with pencil and paper (graphing and basic array manipulation)
  • Hand calculation worksheet (HW3): Pies, bars and more practice with arrays
  • Review of percentages: reviews different types of percentage problems and shows how these ideas can be extended to MATLAB programs
  • Hand calculations of statistical indicators: introduces statistical indicators such as mean, median, standard deviation, percentiles, and inter-quartile range and shows how to compute these quantities by hand
  • Logarithms and growth rates: explains how to interpret the shapes of functions on regular and logarithmic scales and discusses the relationships of these shapes to growth rates
  • Interpretation of box plots: explains the various facets of the box plot visualization
  • Populations and samples: explains how characteristics of a population can be estimated from samples
  • Practice sheet on vector indexing : contains exercises on analyzing data using vector indexing (done in class)
  • Vector indexing worksheet (HW5): contains exercises on analyzing data using vector indexing (done on your own for check-off)
  • CS1173ProgramControlWorksheet.pdf contains exercises on loops and fors.
• MATLAB syntax:
  • MATLAB array basics: reviews different ways to reshape and assemble arrays in MATLAB
  • The diff function: explains how the diff function works
  • The max function: explains how the max function works
  • The mean function: explains how the mean function works
  • The median function: explains how the median function works
  • The min function: explains how the min function works
  • The repmat function: explains how the repmat function works
  • The reshape function: explains how the reshape function works
  • The std function: explains how the std function works
  • Subplot arrangement: explains how the arguments of the subplot function control the tiling of axes
  • The sum function: explains how the sum function works
• Sleep diary resources:
  • Sleep diary log sheet (hard copy)
  • Sleep diary Excel spreadsheet
  • Sleep processing scripts
• Sleep resources:
  • Script to simulate data in Dawson and Reid paper on fatigue and alcohol: DawsonData.m
  • Dawson and Reid exercise
  • Sleep cycle alarm clock IPhone App review
  • You Tube video: How the Body Works: The Biological Clock
  • You Tube video: How the Body Works: Brain Patterns and Sleep
  • Sleep cycle alarm clock Iphone App demo
• Writing resources:
  • CS 1173 Quantitative writing rubric: gives a list of the requirements for each of the three levels of quantitative writing (mechanics, facts, insight)
  • CS 1173 Project report template: is a MS Word template for the project 2 technical report.
  • CS 1173 Project Sleep Diary Feedback: shows grading sheet for providing feedback for the writeup of project.
  • CS 1173 Quantifying writing: shows different ways to describe graphs and tables with illustrations from lab 3 and from the plot gallery.
• HWP resources
  • HWP1: Vector Indexing Team Exercise Spring 2012
  • HWP6: Exponential growth:
    • Inconvenient Truth Trailer
    • The Inconvenient Truth - a tale of exponential growth (HWP6)

This resources summary was written by Kay A. Robbins of the University of Texas at San Antonio and last modified on 21-Oct-2010. Please contact krobbins@cs.utsa.edu with comments or suggestions.