MAE 5 "Quantitative Computer Skills" Fall 2003 class is in Center Hall 115, 11-12:20 am.

Detailed information about the course schedule and homework problem assignments are given in the course outline.

Note: The magic number is 0500907

The emeritus TA is Pak Tao Leung (ptleung@ucsd.edu). Pak has set up a webpage for the course of his own. Tathagata Mitra (A01-A04, 858 735-1048, tmitra@ucsd.edu) and Anish Karandikar (A05-A08, 858 455-7645, akarandi@ucsd.edu) are the official TAs and will meet the Sections for homework preparation and lab quizes in the MAE 5 laboratory 205 EBU II and will grade your work. Keep your homework and projects on floppy disks for backup.

Guidelines for projects

For those students with home Windows PCs. Getting True BASIC for your machine, transferring files between W-PCs and Macs, distributing programs to friends and relatives (the read me file). For students with home Macs (the read me file). For students without floppy drives on their personal computers but with CD drives, a disk has been burned with the True Basic & TB Ref for home files that you can borrow.

Information about True Basic: John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz invented the BASIC programming language in 1964 for use at Dartmouth College. They made it freely available to everyone who wanted to learn how to program computers.

In 1983 they created True BASIC to incorporate and showcase all the exciting new developments they had added to their language, which had now become a world standard. It was designed to be both easy to use for beginners and powerful for advanced programmers. More people in the world use BASIC than any other programming language. The UCSD site licensed True Basic Bronze program (unlimited license for UCSD students and faculty) that you will copy in the laboratory and use in the course is the full-featured language system:

More information about the program can be obtained as follows:

• Download TB Ref freeware about True Basic by Prof. Richard Herz of AMES UCSD .
• The True Basic webpage.
• The True Basic Institute.
• A technical note on graphical objects.
• Web Page for the True BASIC manual
• The GET MOUSE command (as an example). Or click here for the downloaded version.
• Matrix plotting can be handy, and is also not included in Catlin's book.
• For making music, try the PLAY command. For a demo, PLAY "Old Smokey". Put in a print statement like PRINT "a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief" to avoid the intermediate mode in BRONZE.
• Save programs you expect to use often in your personal libraries.
• Changing font sizes and styles within your programs.

Lectures

• week 1,
• week 2,
• week 3,
• week 4,
• week 5,
• week 6,
• week 7,
• week 8,
• week 9,
• week 10.

Quizzes (grades,solution) Class List

• week 1, grades, Q1
• week 2, grades, Q2, Q3
• week 3, grades Q4 , Q5, LQ1
• week 4, grades Q6 , Q7
• week 5, grades, LQ2
• week 6, grades, Q8 , Q9
• week 7, LQ3
• week 8, grades, Q10 , Q11
• week 9, Q12, LQ4 grades
• week 10 no quizzes

Final Grades

Help

• Functions
• Statements
• Terms

The psychologists corner.