Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 17:56:26 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Wed, 15 May 1996 23:12:52 GMT Content-length: 14164
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.
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: