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MANE 3351

Lecture 6

Classroom Management

Agenda

  • Markdown
  • Schedule
  • Homework 1

Resources

Handouts

  • Lecture 6 Slides
  • Lecture 6 Marked Slides

Assignments


Schedule

  • Slight difference from syllabus
Lecture/Lab Date Topic
6 9/16 Markdown, Homework 1 (due 9/23)
7 9/18 Taylor Series, Homework 2 (due 9/25 - no late work), Lab 3
8 9/23 Roots of Equations, bisection method (not on Test 1)
9 9/25 Bisection Method Error Analysis, False Position (not on Test 1)
10 9/30 Test 1 (lectures 1-7)

Introduction to Markdown

Markdown is another mark-up language like hyper text mark-up language (HTML) used for document creation. Markdown is used in Jupyter Notebooks for cells with text. All of the classroom handouts and the course website are made using Markdown.

markdown

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Markdown

github markdown

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Markdown Tutorial

markdown tutorial

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ReText

ReText is a free Python package for editing Markdown files.

reText

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LaTeX

LaTeX is another programming language for scientific and engineering document preparation. This material will not be covered in any test in the course. All of the equations that appear in the handouts were written using LaTeX commands within Markdown. Other faculty may require the use of LaTeX but it is not required in MANE 3351.

\[ e=mc^2 \]

MathJax

Javascript display engine to display mathematical equations in LaTex or MathML on browsers.

MathJax

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MkDocs

mkdocs

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Material for MkDocs

material6

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Pandoc

pandoc

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R Markdown

R Markdown is a file format for making dynamic documents with R. An R Markdown document is written in markdown (an easy-to-write plain text format) and contains chunks of embedded R code, like the document below.

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Demonstrations