USYD | Edmund Tse | 
28 Mar 2009 08:18 | 
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(after the break!)
Tags: Excel, MATLAB, quiz, USYD
USYD | Edmund Tse | 21 Mar 2009 14:09 | Comments (0)
In Lab 2 we finally got to play around with MATLAB, a calculator on steroids and a particularly useful engineering tool. We started it up, and wrote some programs both by typing straight into the ">>" prompt, and by creating scripts called m-files and then running that script by typing the name of that file.
We also stored some numbers as variable names, and used them in the calculations to same typing the numbers over and over again. We didn’t really get to indexing an array, but that’s something I want you all to have a play with before our next lab.
Also have a go at the Excel section, since it’s pretty easy and won’t take up much of your time at all. It’s all to do with applying what you’ve learnt in lab 1 to make the table, and then plotting them in an X-Y scatter plot, adding trendlines.
I’ll go through arrays/vectors/matrices operators at the start of the next lab.
More hints and tips about the lab after the break!
USYD | Edmund Tse | 13 Mar 2009 17:27 | Comments (1)
Administrative matters
This is just a recap of our first lab this Wednesday. To start things off, I’d like to make sure that the administrative matters are dealt with before next lab. We skipped over these during the lab so that we can get as far into the actual course content as possible.
By now, everyone should be able to log onto the School of IT (SIT) undergraduate computers using your UniKey username and your SIT password. Note that the computers outside of the undergraduate labs are actually part of the postgraduate Masters of IT (MIT) lab, so don’t worry if you can’t log onto those.
So that was your SIT account. Now to get onto eLearning, you use your UniKey account to log onto MyUni. It’s pretty much the only website you need to remember for your Uni stuff including the eLearning link on the right hand side. (This is the Uni-wide account, not SIT specific.) Make sure that you know how to get to the lecture notes and the labs. The first Matlab lecture, Excel lecture and lab should be there already. Next, check out the Discussions section. I want you to go and make a test post on the Discussions if you haven’t done so already. It’s a good idea to stay tuned to the discussions page throughout the semester, because if you’re having trouble with something in ENGG1801, it’s very likely that someone else is also having the same problems.
Finally, jump to the SPOT exercises and try your hand at them. They’re not difficult, but they do reflect the topics we want you to understand as part of the course. It’s not assessable (in fact we can’t even see your scores), and they’re a great way to revise. Remember that your first quiz will be similar in style to the SPOT exercises.
Next lab, I’ll show you some hidden features about your USYD email account and perhaps some better ways of getting to your email.
Course material
Clarification points brought up in Lab 1:
USYD | Edmund Tse | 6 Mar 2009 15:12 | Comments (0)
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