MTH229: computer projects to reinforce calculus concepts from numerical and graphical points of view will be presented. Suitable mathematical software will be utilized. Problem solving techniques using the computer will be discussed. The students will be assigned a number of projects to be completed individually or in small groups.
Instructor: Professor John Verzani. john.verzani@csi.cuny.edu.
Website: www.math.csi.cuny.edu/verzani
Class time: MW 12:20-1:10 1S-108
Special days: No class M 9/7; no class M 9/27; class on T 9/28; no class M 10/12; class on 10/14; no class 11/25; ;ast day of class 12/9.
Office hours: By request
Disability policy: Qualified students with disabilities will be provided reasonable academic accommodations if determined eligible by the Office for Disability Services. Prior to granting disability accommodations in this course, the instructor must receive verification of the student’s eligibility from the Office of Disability Services. It is the student’s responsibility to initiate contact with the Office for Disability Services staff and to follow the established procedures for having the accommodation notice sent to the instructor.
Integrity policy: CUNY’s Academic Integrity Policy is available online at https://www.csi.cuny.edu/catalog/undergraduate/academic-policies.htm#o3518
We will meet through zoom and communicate through blackboard. A standing zoom link will be set up for the class.
Your grade will be based on your project average (50%) and your average on 3 exams and possible some quizzes (50%). The time of the exams will be based on the pace of the class.
The mathematical software used in this section will be Julia. Julia is an open-source software language well designed for numerical computations.
Julia is open source. We have several different ways to use Julia in this class.
The url launch binder will open a website that allows you access to the course projects and Julia. This works well, except the pages will time out due to non-activity fairly frequently.
The docker image jverzani/mth229-julia can be used to use the projects within Julia.
Docker is a freely available system for running containerized applications. THe basic instructions are:
docker run -p 8888:8888 jverzani/mth229-juliaor if ~work is a folder in your home directory, starting with
docker run -v ~/work:/home/jovyan/work -p 8888:8888 jverzani/mth229-juliawill allow the saving of data into a work folder.
http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=841ddf7e5c73bdf3515207add1cb360baf81973f75e304c6. The "token" part is randomly generated. Open this url into a web browser window and Julia will be ready to run.The college put many efforts over the summer allows students remote access to computers in the college's labs th. Julia is installed on the computers in 1S-108. Details are at https://www.csi.cuny.edu/online-resources/office-information-technology-services/computer-labs-multimedia-classrooms/virtual-computer-labs.
Julia can be downloaded and installed on a local computer. In addition to Julia, there are a handful of necessary steps to download and install the projects and some accompanying libraries. Ask for more details.
You might try downloading http://hogwarts.ucsd.edu/~pkrysl/shared/Portable_Julia.zip and expanding to a USB thumb drive. Run from there. You will need to install the IJulia and MTH229 packages and add the project files. Details are on mth229.github.io.
The class is structured around 10 topics. For each topic, there are a series of WeBWorK questions to complete. These will be worth 50% of your grade.
The url https://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/WebWork/courses.md lists the courses. Find MTH229 - Verzani and select that. Login details are on the side panel.
The WeBWorK questions for this class have some differences than the ones for MTH 231 and MTH 230. In particular, they require you to do the computations in Julia, as WeBWorK is instructed not to help out. In addition, WeBWorK has a different indicator for scientific notation. Julia uses and e, as in 1.23e45, whereas WeBWorK would use an E, as in 1.23E45.
Most questions have a tolerance of 4 digits after the decimal point. Some questions where the answer comes from reading a graph will relax this tolerance.
The expected workflow is that the question is read in WeBWorK, the question is answered in a Julia notebook cells, the appropriate results are then copy and pasted for the WeBWorK answer. Unfortunately, the fonts used to display the WeBWorK questions do not lend themselves to copy and paste into a Julia notebook.
Students who participate in this class with their camera on or use a profile image are agreeing to have their video or image recorded solely for the purpose of creating a record for students enrolled in the class to refer to, including those enrolled students who are unable to attend live. If you are unwilling to consent to have your profile or video image recorded, be sure to keep your camera off and do not use a profile image. Likewise, students who un-mute during class and participate orally are agreeing to have their voices recorded. If you are not willing to consent to have your voice recorded during class, you will need to keep your mute button activated and communicate exclusively using the "chat" feature, which allows students to type questions and comments live.