SUNY Geneseo Department of Computer Science

Introduction

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Welcome to CSci 120 (Matlab)

Programming for personal reasons: insight/exploration of problems, small-scale or one-time calculation, etc.

A “Flipped” Course

• Learning
  • Listening
  • Reading
  • Doing <-- by far what most of you find most effective, which is what most educators believe too
• …So why does the traditional course structure use the time the professor and students have together for lecturing, and leave the students to work on the doing by themselves?

• Read and watch videos on your own
• Class =
  • Questions
  • Hands-on “lessons”
• All classes are “recitation”
  • Friday 10:30, Monday 11:30
  • Friday 11:30, Wednesday 11:30
• All classes meet in South 341
• Study groups of 3 people

Syllabus

Available online

Next

Get set up (install Matlab on your computer, register for tutorials)

• Handout

Organize study groups