Week 13
- solutions to midterms 1 and 2 now posted on the web site.
- Some answers to Question 8, a and b on midterm 2 were incorrectly graded and have now been corrected; please go to CrowdMark to see if your grades have been updated.
- there is a slightly updated version of the project on the course web page. It slightly improves the description of the algorithm to account for processing time after the last job is moved into the processing slot. You do not need to use this version: the tests should work for either version of the algorithm. (Thanks to a correction from a student in the class.)
Week 12
- please fill out course evaluations at https://evals.mcmaster.ca !
- homework 2 marks and feedback should have been returned (on Avenue/by e-mail); if yours is missing, please contact us
- there will be quizzes next week in tutorial (2-4 December), covering material up to and including midterm 2
- a project will be released on Weds 27 Nov on the class web page; it will be due on Weds Dec 11
Midterm 2
- the old final rubric posted on the web site has now been updated with solutions for Q1 & 2
- some
numpy questions are now posted on CodeLab
- midterm test 2 will be held in LRW B1007 (everyone, in both lecture sections) from 7-8 PM on Tues 19 November.
- the test will include all material up to the end of week 9, i.e. including
numpy use and numerical issues in computation. (It will include material on floating-point as well as integer computation.)
- the 2016 final is posted on the web site. All the questions except Q6 and Q8 would be reasonable questions for midterm 2 (and the particular point in Q1b about raising a ValueError)
Week 9
- marks for midterm test 1 have been e-mailed. The marks for this test are out of 120.
Week 8
- problem 51826 has a typographical error. For now, you should use a dictionary called
wwii_battle_winners (all lowercase) in your solution, not wwII_battle_winners. If you run out of attempts because of this mistake, please let me know. (I’ve told the CodeLab folks folks about this, so there is some chance they will fix it.)
- homework 4: Codelab questions. These are due on Weds Nov 6 at 11:59 PM.
- Sets:
- Initialization/creation: 51804
- Addition/removal: 51805 51810
- Iteration: 51301
- Dictionaries:
- Adding/removal: 51818 51819 51302
- Traversal: 51828 51826 51281
- Files: 51356 51361
midterm 1
- midterm 1 will be held from 7-8 PM on 22 October (Tues). If your family name begins with the letters A-S, please go to Canadian Martyrs (across Main Street from the hospital) to take the test. If your family name begins with the letters T-Z, please go to BSB B135.
- no calculators or other test aids will be allowed (why would you need them anyway?)
- Canadian Martyrs is located at 1355 Main Street West across the street from the Information Technology Building (ITB). Students writing exams should enter the building by the Main Street entrance using the cement pathway. Please do not enter using the school front entrance or the side/playground entrances.
Week 6
- Homework: don’t forget
- delete
raise NotImplementedError() from your notebook before submitting!
- submit your homework as
yourmacid_hw3.ipynb
- Instead of using Avenue, you are encouraged to submit your homework to https://macdrive.mcmaster.ca/u/d/7985d0ce553e467e998a/ instead; please upload exactly one file. If your homework is in the proper format, you will receive an automatic e-mail within an hour. All assignments not in the proper format are automatically deleted. If you do not receive an email, your assignment was in the wrong format; fix any problems and resubmit. If there is an issue with the link please contact
pocucan@mcmaster.ca.
- The lectures this Thursday (10 Oct: Bolker) and Friday (11 Oct: Pang) will be review sessions for the test on 22 October. We will be doing a brief overview of the course outline, but will primarily be focusing on questions from students, so please plan to ask questions!
- The test will cover everything up to and including the “week 5” notes (not covering Newton’s method, not covering file I/O). Please see the previous years’ midterms posted on the course web page for examples of typical questions.
Week 5
- Homework #3 is now posted here. It is a self-contained Jupyter notebook that includes all of the instructions. Please read these and submit your homework to Avenue to Learn before 11:59 PM on Fri 11 Oct.
Week 4
- don’t forget to remove the
raise NotImplementedError() from your homework notebook before submitting!
- more details on homework submission:
- download the homework template from here
- if you’re working on syzygy, click the “Upload” button (upper right hand of screen) to copy the file from your computer to the syzygy server
- fill in your solutions
- rename the file to
yourmacid_hw2.ipynb (where “yourmacid” is your actual MacID, the same as the beginning of your McMaster email address)
- download the notebook as a
.ipynb file:
- upload the file to Avenue to Learn: Avenue > Math 1MP3 > Assignments > HW2
- more on the
[*] in syzygy:
- This means that something earlier in your session got stuck. There’s probably nothing wrong with your code. In order, try these solutions:
Kernel > InterruptKernel > RestartKernel > Restart & Clear Output
- Next, try stopping and restarting your server: go to the Control Panel (see below), click the Red “Stop My Server” button, then click the blue “Start My Server” button.
- Some students have been stuck even after trying all of these. Waiting a while and then logging back in might help. Do please e-mail and let me know which (if any) of these works!
- The bottom line, though, is that (1) it’s not your fault if stuff gets stuck and (2) if you can run your code somewhere else (with Anaconda/jupyter notebooks on your own computer, in Python Tutor, on Repl.it, etc.) it should be fine.
Week 3
- QUIZZES ARE POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT WEEK due to technical difficulties.
- Homework #2 is now posted here. It is a self-contained Jupyter notebook that includes all of the instructions. Please read these and submit your homework to Avenue to Learn before 11:59 PM on Weds 2 Oct.
- there will be quizzes in your lab sessions next week. These will be CodeLab questions covering the material in weeks 1 and 2 (i.e., everything in the notes for these two weeks - not including functions or any material after that). The quizzes will start 10 minutes after the beginning of the class period; you’ll have 15 minutes (and 5 tries per question) to answer.
Week 2
- Dr. Bolker’s office hours (HH 314): Tues 1:30-2:20 AM, Thurs 10:30-11:20 AM. (this week only, 12 Sep, Thurs office hours will be 11:45-12:20 instead).
- Dr. Pang’s office hours (HH 414): 3:30 - 4:30pm Weds, 12-1pm Fri
Week 1
- We’ve set up a Facebook forum for the class at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/406619356725041/ . This forum is available for any course-related questions. Questions about homework are OK, but no spoilers please! Please be polite.
- Student Accessibility Services is looking for a note taker for section C01 (Dr Bolker’s section). This is a volunteer position. You can get a letter of reference from SAS saying you’ve done it. It does help motivate you to come to class and take good notes! And you’ll be helping someone. If you’re interested, please go to https://sas.mcmaster.ca/volunteer-notetaking/ for registration and program instructions, or write to
sasnotes@mcmaster.ca for more information.
Week 0
- You should figure out how to start Python (online or on your computer: instructions here) and register for CodeLab (instructions here) as soon as possible.
- Read the course outline.
- Tutorials will start on Mon 9 September.
- Classes will be held in TSH B105
- the first class for section C01 is Tues 3 Sep 4:30
- the first class for section C02 is Weds 4 Sep 2:30
- Information on HW#1: this can be found on CodeLab, in the table of contents under “Python3 Topics > Assignment #1”. It is due before 23:59 on Monday September 16. Please be sure to submit your solutions to these 16 questions before then. You can get practice with similar questions in the relevant CodeLab subsections (Arithmetic; Strings (I) and (II); Conditions and Branches). All the material you need for these questions is in the Week-1 notes, and will be covered by the end of class next Monday (Sep 9).