August
M Tuesday W Thursday F
22 
23 
 Before Class:
Order the textbooks

Class:
Course Introduction
Syllabus
Linux
24 
25 
 Before Class:
Request personal CS account
Install Linux or setup a virtual box if your primary computer is not already Unix-based
Login into herschel.cs.mtsu.edu via ssh/PuTTY or X2Go
Linux #1

Class:
Linux Commands I
LaTeX
Student Notes: .tex, .pdf
26 
29 
30 
 Before Class:
Chapters 1 and 2 of Code Complete

Class:
LaTeX (@ Simple Structures)
Linux Commands II
Student Notes: .tex, .pdf
31 

September
M Tuesday W Thursday F
1 
 Class:
Linux Commands III
Shell Scripting: Bash
2 
5 
6 
 Before Class:
LaTeX

Class:
Linux Commands IV
Text Editors
Shell Scripting: Bash
7 
8 
 Before Class:
Download Emacs or Vim (or Vi) and create a new file called helloWorld.txt, add some text to it, save it and exit the program.
Explore several of the other commands from the Emacs RefCard or the Vim RefCard
Sections 5.1 - 5.2 from Code Complete

Class:
Shell Scripting: Bash (@ Redirection)
Fortran (beginning - ASCII)
9 
12 
13 
 Before Class:
Bash

Class:
Fortran (@ Computer Memory)
Revision Control
14 
15 
 Before Class:
Fortran I
Sections 5.3-5.4, 9.1-9.2 from Code Complete

Class:
Fortran (@ Variable Types)
Pseudocode
16 
19 
20 
 Class:
Fortran (@ Loops Exercise)

Due:
Fortran II
21 
22 
 Class:
Fortran (@ Input and Output)
23 
26 
27 
 Class:
Fortran (@ Subroutines and Functions)
Makefiles
28 
29 
 Class:
Fortran (@ Fortran IO)
Makefiles
30 

October
M Tuesday W Thursday F
3 
4 
 Before Class:
Chapter 3 of Scientific Computing 

Class:
Debuggers
Linear Least Squares [SC 3.1-3.4]

Due:
Loan Calculator
5 
6 
7 
10 
Fall Break
11 
12 
13 
 Class:
Linear Least Squares [SC 3.1-3.4] (@ Householder Transformations)
Numerical Libraries [SC 2.7, 3.8]
Perl

Due:
Least Squares
14 
17 
18 
 Class:
Gnuplot Preview
Perl (@ Scalars)
19 
20 
 Class:
Perl (@ Arrays)

Due:
Householder
21 
24 
25 
 Class:
Perl (@ Hashes)
26 
27 
 Class:
Perl (@ Operators)
28 
31 

November
M Tuesday W Thursday F
1 
 Class:
Perl (@ List Operators)
2 
3 
 Class:
Perl (@ References)

Due:
Perl1 (Due: Friday)
4 
7 
8 
 Class:
Perl (@ Reading From Files)
9 
10 
 Class:
Perl (@ Regular Expressions: Group Subpatterns)
11 
14 
15 
 Before Class:
Chapter 25 from Code Complete

Class:
Perl (@Modules)
Software Optimization I
16 
17 
 Before Class:
Chapter 26 from Code Complete

Class:
Software Optimization II
18 
21 
22 
 Class:
Parallel Programming

Due:
Perl2
23 
Thanksgiving Break
24 
25 
28 
29 
 Class:
Steady State Temperature Distribution Project

Due:
Optimizations
30 

December
M Tuesday W Thursday F
1 
2 
5 
6 
7 
Final
8 
 Class:
Final (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
9