Welcome to Beyond the Mouse – and Week 1 of our Fall 2018 session

Week 1 of Beyond the Mouse will introduce you to each other and to programming as a skill.

Learning goals are:

1. Orient yourself in the MATLAB interface and the computing lab
2. Understand the following concepts: variables, operators number literals, statements, functions
3. Write your first small pieces of script and your first function.

Things to do:

1. Download the updated syllabus .
2. Download the extended slides with notes.
3. Download the lab files.
4. Do the optional readings:
   • Hahn & Valentine ch. 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, and 3.1 or Attaway, ch 1.1 to 1.4
   • R. Grapenthin, “Computer Programing for Geosciences: Teach Your Students How to Make Tools”. https://eos.org/opinions/computer-programing-for-geosciences-teach-your-students-how-to-make-tools   (by the original instructor of this course)
   • P. Guo, “Why Scientists and Engineers Must Learn Programming”. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/166115-why-scientists-and-engineersmust-learn-programming/fulltext