`Scientific Computing for Astro Grad Students' is a minicourse covering a variety of topics concerning putting together scientific programs for astrophysics. Class time will be Monday, 3pm-4pm4pm-5pm and Thurs, 1pm-2pm from Jan 7-31. Marks will be based on four weeklythree assignments.

Mar 4 There was a typo in coarsegrid.sci for Assignment 3; the new version should work fine.

Jan 14 Starting next week, Monday classes will be from 4-5, not 3-4

Jan 11 Assignment 1's ode.sci was a little out of date; there was a typo and ode wasn't called quite the way that was intended. The updated version is below.

Jan 7	Things You Need To Know About Coding	[PDF]; Notes
Jan 10	Floating Point Math And Random Numbers	[PDF]; Source Code in lecture
Jan 14	Makefiles and Friends	[PDF]
Jan 17	Linear Algebra I	[PDF]; Source Code in lecture
Jan 21	Linear Algebra II	[PDF]
Jan 24	Interpolation, Integration, and ODEs	[PDF]; Source code in lecture
Jan 28	PDEs I	[PDF]
Jan 31	PDEs II	[PDF]

1. Assignment 1 - Due 17 Jan 2008. Supplementary files: driver.f; ode.sci; macheps.sci
2. Assignment 2 - Due 28 Jan 2008.
3. Assignment 3 - Due 7 Mar 2008. You will also need coarsegrid.sci and spectral.sci

• http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/Debug/Debug.pdf: A tutorial on using ddd (or similar graphical debuggers) to debug.
• http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=103163: “What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic” — that means you.