Lectures, Homeworks, and Projects for MAT331

• Basic programming
• Cryptography
• Fractals
• Probability

Lectures

• Lecture 1: Arithmetic, Variables, While loops, Multiple assignment
• Lecture 2: Live, Clean: Printing, Conditionals, Booleans, equality testing
• Lecture 3: Live Imports, Functions. Plenty of resources online, e.g. here.
• Lecture 4: Live -- Lists
• Lecture 5: Plotting, Strings, Caeser Cipher
• Lecture 6: Dictionaries and Sets
• Lecture 7: Modular Exponentiaton, Recursion
• Lecture 8: Recursion, Efficient modular exponentiation, Key Exchange
• Lecture 9: Probability and Monte Carlo
• Lecture 10: Probability 2
• Lecture 11: Universality in randomness
• Lecture 12: Drawing randomness using numpy matrices and imgshow
• Lecture 13: Complex Dynamical Systems
• Lecture 14: Drawing the Nonescaping set
• Lecture 15,16: Hints for DLA project
• Lecture 17: Drawing the connectedness locus / Mandelbrot set
• Lecture 19: Newton's method
• Lecture 20: Netwon's method Pt 2
• Lecture 21: Project 2 Hints
• Lecture 23: Graphs
• Lecture 24: Project 3 Hints

Homework

• HW1 Due Feb 1 3pm, Brightspace.
• HW2 Due Feb 8 11:59pm, Brightspace.
• HW3 Due Feb 15 11:59pm, Brightspace.
• HW4 Due Feb 22 11:59pm, Brightspace.
• HW5 Due Mar 1 11:59pm, Brightspace

Projects

• Project 1 - DLA Due April 5 11:59pm, Brightspace
• Project 2 - Julia Sets Due April 21 11:59pm, Brightspace
• Project 3 (optional) - Random Graphs Due May 9 11:59pm, Brightspace

References