SUNY Geneseo Department of Computer Science

“If” Statements, Day 4

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Misc

Hour exam 2 Friday (Apr. 11)

• Material since 1st hour exam (for, while, if)
• Otherwise similar to 1st hour exam in style, rules
• Particularly open reference material

GREAT Day tomorrow (Apr. 8)

• Go hear/see (or present your own) student posters, talks etc.
• No appointments that day

Questions?

“If” Statements

Differentiating distance

• Having Matlab do it symbolically for you is tempting, but incredibly subject to typo errors, and impossible to debug
• Doing it by hand is not that hard

• Or the third suggestion in handout is to approximate derivative as slope between closely spaced points on the function

Next

(After test)

Debugging

Handout

Read/watch

• Section 6.5 in Attaway
• “Matlab Debugging 1” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCDdBLYuRFU
• “Matlab Debugging 2” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLS6A8shLJw
• “Matlab Debugging 3” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ViAGrIVzj4