Reading Material for Math 382 (Password Required)

1. Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning Was the Command Line
2. Machtelt Garrels, Introduction to Linux: A Beginner's Guide (version 2 pdf)
3. Machtelt Garrels, Introduction to Linux: A Beginner's Guide (version 3 pdf)
4. Machtelt Garrels, Bash Guide for Beginners (2008 Version)
5. Linux Command Reference (3 pages)
6. Commanding The Shell
7. Navigating the Linux File System
8. Introductory Shell Scripting
9. more to come ...

Lecture Notes (No Passwords Required)

• Free Beer and Free Speech
• Computers and Operating Systems
• Virtual Operating Systems and Linux
• Getting Started with Linux
• Getting Started with Python
• Getting Started with Latex
• Data Representation
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Linear Algebra
• Data Fitting
• Differential Equations
• Finding Roots
• The Onset of Chaos
• Fractals
• Computing Pi
• Mathematica
• Updates/more notes may be added ...

Here are the Older Mathematica Based Lecture Notes

My Introduction to Latex Notes are Here

Homework Assignments

Late Homework Policy: 20% reduction up to one-week late; 50% reduction thereafter (and no promise that I will actually ever get around to grading it if its really late).

1. Homework Set 1 - Due 9 Feb 2012 (Latex)
2. Homework Set 2 | Data File - Due 23 Feb 2012 (Getting Started with Python)
3. Homework Set 3 | latex - Due 8 March 2012 (Linux Tutorial Exercises)
4. Homework Set 4 | small.dat | big.dat - Due 27 March 2012 (Applications in Linear Algebra)
5. Homework Set 5 - Due 17 April 2012 (Differential Equation (ODE Solving and Fitting, Pi)
6. Homework Set 6 - Due 1 May 2012 (Fractals)
7. Homework Set 7 - Due 15 May 2012 (Mathematica) (turn in at Final)