Syllabus for Math 696,
Summer II, 2009
(All Sections)

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Note: Only Matlab is required for this course. Maple will be covered briefly, in the form of Maplets. Click here for details

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
July 6
Course Overview
Hardware/Software
requirements,
Office Hours,
Streaming Video
July 7
History of the Web (WWW)
first project components,
online resources

July 8
Elementary HTML
Building your
course page,
required elements,
HTML validation
July 9
More HTML
Tables, Forms
GIF/JPEG
Style sheets
First Project
July 10

MathML and XML

July 13
Math'l Documents
TeX and LaTeX
Microsoft Word
Lyx front end
July 14
Stylesheets/Macros
.sty style files
.dot templates
Journal req'mnts
Math packages
July 15
Formatting Eqns
Embedded Graphics

First Project Due
July 16
Generating Output
PostScript, RTF,
Adobe PDF, DVI,
HTML
Second Project
July 17
Wrapup

Lots of
LATEX examples ...
July 20
Intro. to Matlab.
GUI vs. command line


July 21
Matlab m-files
Built-in functions
2D graphics
Elementary
Programming
July 22
Matlab Tour
Lorenz Attractor


Second Project Due
July 23
Sample Apps:
Linear & Nonlinear
Harmonic Oscillators
Third Project
Octave
July 24
Matlab - Advanced Topics
Building Interfaces

July 27

Matlab Central
Repository ofprograms
July 28
Other Computer Algebra Systems
Mathematica
Maple
Mathcad
July 29
Maplets

AsciiMathML package
Third Project Due
July 30
Making Movies in Matlab
Fourth Project

July 31
Interactive Web Pages
Introduction to JavaScript

Aug 3
Interactive Web Pages
Advanced JavaScript

Final Project
Aug 4
Educational Applications

Building Interactive Web Quizzes
Web-based Educational Software
Aug 5
Dynamic HTML


Fourth Project Due
Aug 6



Final Presentations
Aug 7



Final Presentations

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Wed Aug 5

Thursday Aug 6 Friday Aug 7