2/26 class

[Jay McCarthy]

It has taken longer than I thought it would, but I made a video for
the second class for 2/26.

http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~jomccarthy/video/2015-Spring-250-9.mp4

And here's the code I go through:

http://jeapostrophe.github.io/courses/2015/spring/250/notes/9.rkt

See you tomorrow

<3

Jay

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:34 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that the read and then comment process worked reasonably well
> last time, despite my long delays. The next subject, numerical
> integration, is much more mathy and much more of the form "scientists
> care about integration, but it is hard, what can we do to help them?"
>
> I found some really great slides and then a pretty decent write up of
> some basics:
>
> http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~piche/numa/lecture0910.pdf (slides)
>
> http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/people/mervynroy/lectures/numc.pdf
> (section 2 is a write-up)
>
> Can you read these in detail and give your comments & feedback? The
> first one is a bit heavy on Matlab code, but I hope that your astute
> programmer eyes can see through the language into what is interesting
> going on.
>
> I also think it could be interesting to get you to find one
> application of integration that you didn't know before hand. (Maybe
> try Googling "Why does <field X> need integration?" or something and
> try to discover something new.)
>
> <3
>
> Jay
>
> --
> Jay McCarthy
> http://jeapostrophe.github.io
>
> "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing,
> for ye are laying the foundation of a great work.
> And out of small things proceedeth that which is great."
> - D&C 64:33



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Jay McCarthy
http://jeapostrophe.github.io

"Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing,
for ye are laying the foundation of a great work.
And out of small things proceedeth that which is great."
- D&C 64:33

[Jay McCarthy]

It looks like the CS web server is laggy or down and should be up
soon. That's why Lais couldn't get to the movie recently.

Jay

[Jay McCarthy]

It looks back up now.