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CS 110 Section 2 Home Page
Text and Lecture Notes
Text:
Fortran with Engineering Applications, 5th. edition, by E. Koffman and F. Friedman, 1993.
Lecture Notes:
Copies of the lecture notes will be available on-line at the end of each week of class. Important - the on-line lecture notes are not a substitute for coming to class and only cover what I show on the overhead projector. They do not include any examples or additional notes that I put on the board. You are responsible for all the material covered in class.
- Week 1
- Week 2
- Week 3
- Week 4
- Week 5
- Week 6
- Week 7
- Week 8
Programming Assignments
There are four programming assignments each contributing 25% to your final grade. You must attempt to complete every programming assignment. If you hand in a program that does not run or will not even compile without errors then it will not be graded and will automatically receive a zero grade and you risk failing the course.
Assignment Specifications:
- Program #0 (handed out in class), due Wednesday 3/27/96, 8:50 am
- Program #1, due Monday 4/8/96, 8:50 am
- Program #2, due Friday 4/19/96, 8:50 am
- Program #3, due Wednesday 5/1/96, 8:50 am
- Program #4, due Friday 5/10/96, 1:00 pm
How to Get Help with Your Assignments:
- Consultants:
- The consultants in the computer lab can help you with most problems. They wear name tags and are on duty from approximately 8:00 am to 11:00 pm. Consultants can answer short questions about compiler error messages and program syntax, as well as how to login, use the printers, send E-mail, run Netscape, etc.
- Click here for more information about the consultants.
- Instructor:
- General questions about an assignment or questions that may require a long explanation are best answered by myself. Please see me during office hours or send me E-mail. I am not normally in my office except during office hours because I do my dissertation research from home via a modem. Therefore, if you want to see me outside of office hours please make an appointment first. You can most easily contact me by E-mail because I regularly login and read my E-mail from home.
- Click here to send me E-mail.
Problem Solving Exercises
One of the most important skills you will learn in this class is problem solving. Good problem solving skills distinguish a "good" computer programmer from a "bad" one - it doesn't matter how familiar or skilled you are in a particular programming language, if you do not understand how to solve the problem then you will not be able to write a computer program for it in any language.
To help you learn problem solving skills and techniques I will assign weekly problem solving exercises. These will be small but non-trivial problems which I will give out each Monday. You should look at the problem and think about it during the week and right down the steps you would go through to solve the problem; i.e. the overall structure of your program. This is primarily an exercise in general problem solving so you do not have to write any FORTRAN code (though you may if you want to and have time) and your solution/algorithm should not even be dependent on a particular programming language such as FORTRAN. We will go over the solution in class the following Monday.
Exercises:
- Week 2: Question 16, Pg. 89. Click here for the solution.
- Week 3: Question 4, Pg. 147. Click here for the solution.
- Week 4: Question 13, Pg. 218. Click here for the solution.
- Week 5: Question 6, Pg. 269. Click here for the solution.
- Week 6: Question 10, Pg. 329 (subroutines) - click here for the solution; Question 11, Pg. 330 (functions) - click here for the solution.
- Week 7: Question 8, Pg. 401. Click here for the solution.
Computer Lab
You will be using the Vectra lab in Rm. 1350 Computer Science & Statistics containing Hewlett-Packard Vectra's running Microsoft Windows and Microsoft FORTRAN. This lab is open from 7:00 am to 1:00 am seven days a week except certain holidays. The printer room is located across the hall in Rm. 1359.
You may also use your home or dorm computers to write your programs, however you will probably have to purchase your own copy of Microsoft FORTRAN or Lahey Personal FORTRAN (see the inside cover of the textbook). You may also work in any of the other computer labs on campus, however most do not have FORTRAN compilers (please see me first before using the CAE lab).
The software you will be using in the lab includes:
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