Last updated 22oct15

Math 198/CS199 Fall Semester 2015

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Recall that right clicking a webpage permits you to see the code for it, and even copy it for your own use. Some of the webpages here are in pure HTML, the language of the web. These are easy to edit and require no ancillary files. Older ones are composed with a factory called asciiDoc and are therefore poor examples from which to learn HTML. The current hybrid of HTML and LaTeX (The Pudding) comes with a decorative picture, and are easier to maintain. To edit your personal copies of them you will will need some additional files you have to learn how to find. Ask on our Piazza.

Administrivia

Obligatory Introduction to the course.0
Current Syllabus , updated periodically.0
Link to Fall 2011 index for reference.X
Current Calendar 2015 , updated periodically.0
ISL Busroute 2015 for Fieldtrip.
InvitationCAVE Tours 2015
Resources for MA595. 1
Checklist of topics. 0K
Miscellaneous Advice .
The Lynx collects interesting webpages.

Elementary Lessons

Lesson on DPGraph 0
Lesson on Quadric Surfaces Rf
A bridge DPGraph to Python 0
The online Python utility SymPy Live for some number theory.
Preview: 3 Entry Points to Python programming.
The lesson on the Python Journal
Python lesson on the Fibonacci Sequence 0
Python lesson on Turtle Circles 0
More on Turtle Geometry 1
SinePad , or how to put texPad to good use. 0

Intermediate Lessons

Stephenson In the Beginning was the Commandline 0
WinAid for commandline programming on a PC. 0
Historical Math198 classnotes BASIC Pocket Graphics Programs we used from 1997 and 2001. 0
Stan Blank's OpenGL tutorials.
Experiments with the visual.py VPython lib rary.
Subversion 2015 file repository management. 0

Advanced Lessons

Lessons on C/C++/OpenGL graphics programming. 0
Lessons on Python/OpenGL graphics programming. 0
TBA, a revised version of Miniproject
Lesson on the OpenGL Pipeline using illiTorpot . WeekA. 0
Note to the Adventurous (and it helps to know little about HTML). You may have noted that this file is called "an_index.html", because we do not want it to block access to all the files in this web tree. To access these, just erase the "an_index.html" from the URL, and you'll see "everything".

Lessons from the Past

Although we did not follow the identical progression of topics as in past years, some of these lessons are still of interest you the current class. Here is an annotated index by the week:

week1 on DPGraph and Quadric Surfaces
week2 Fibonacci and Sinewheel
week3 Hippocket Programs and Python
week4 Ramya's Tortoise, SVN2015, Miniproject.
week5
week6 texPad, texWins, LaTeX, HTML, Pudding
week7 OpenGL Lighting and Geometry Pipeline, CAs, IFSs etc
week8 Besenham Lines and Circles (Emily Gunawan's project)
weekA Advanced OpenGL Pipleline with Torpot
weekF has instructios on finishing up the project.

Last Words

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