MANE 3351

Lecture 1

Classroom Management

Agenda

• Discuss Syllabus
• Me Talk
• Lecture

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Resources

Handouts

• Syllabus
• Lecture 1 slides (pdf)
• Lecture 1 slides (pptx)
• Lecture 1 Marked

Assignments

• Get textbook

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Lecture 1 Content

Goals for this course

• Improving programming skills
• Enhance mathematical skills to solve engineering problems
• Upgrade your technical presentation skills

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Programming Languages

• Python 3
  • Python will likely replace both C and Java within the next three to four years
• Various Python libraries
• Octave (open source version of Matlab)
• Jupyter Notebook
  • Why Jupyter is data scientists' computational notebook of choice
  • Jupyter Notebook Demonstration (github.com/douglastimmer/PublicStuff/StatisticsNotebooks)
• All classroom examples will be provided to you

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Classroom Organization

• Lot of experimentation in this course (trial and error)
• Adjust lecture meeting time
• Discuss grading scheme
• I reserve the right to lecture during laboratory time
• Markdown is used for slides and handouts

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Textbook

• Open source (free)

• Get it immediately