IT1005

Lab session on week 5

About your Lab TA

Name: Steven Halim (Indonesian)
Occupation:
Full time teaching assistant
Part time PhD student
Not yet professor, so just call me by name!
Want to graduate soon >.<

My problem:
I am handling 5 lab groups this semester
That means 5*~20 = ~100 students
100 emails/lab submissions per week

To make life easier for me

E-mail answers to: stevenhalim at gmail.com
With subject header:
IT1005-LabGroupID FullName,
e.g. IT1005-7A StevenHalim

I will ask Mr Gmail to sort your emails for me =)

Try to submit your answers ONCE only

Do not submit again to fix some minor mistakes!

Shorter (but correct) answers ~ better marks =)

Remember, I have ~100 emails/week !

Just some highlights on the rules posted by Colin

IT1005 Lab Policies

Applies to Lab 2 onwards

Lab Location
Lab sessions begin Monday 11 Feb 2008.
All A groups are at SOC1/815 PC Lab 2.
All B groups are at COM1/114 Embedded
Systems Teaching Lab 1.
You can use your own computer/laptop
You can use the MATLAB clusters in FOE
ChBE Clusters at E5-03-24 (24 hour access)
Check this link for other clusters that you can
also use:
http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/eitu/about_us/aboutus6
.htm

Lab Policies
Lab attendance:
You are free to do the labs in FoE (or at home) instead
of going down to SoC1/COM1.
However if you have a question to ask, you can only
do it during the lab session.
Your tutor will be waiting for you during the session.
This means that you should at least look through the lab
ahead of the official session in case you need to see him/her.
Exception for me: you can email me, but the best way to
explain is hands on during the lab session.
Also with subject header IT1005 your question bla bla
Try to post questions in IT1005 IVLE Forum first, especially if
your question is generic.

Lab Policies
Lab Submission
Electronic submission via email to your
respective tutors.
Your tutors will contact you via email ahead of
time so you know whom to submit to.
Your grades will be returned to you
electronically as well.
For this, use my gmail subject labeling scheme
explained previously, ok!

You do not need to attend

labs!
MATLABs are available in FoE labs.
I was told that some of you also have
MATLAB in your very own laptop.
But

But it is better to attend

labs, why?
I will review past lectures (~15m).
I will help you to keep pace with the lectures.

I will discuss past lab questions (~15m).

Not just the answers, but also common mistakes, and
side topics around lab questions.

I will discuss current lab questions (~15m).

Not the answers, but how to tackle them.

I will ask stimulating MATLAB questions (~15m).

2 hour lab: 1 hour interaction, 1 hour free &
easy.

Review of Past Lectures

http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~stevenha/myteachi
ng

Click supplemental materials for lecture.

Discussion about Lab 0/1

You can now check your submissions in my
website
Everyone can see each others marks/comments
>.<
Sorry for that
Special case for lab 0/1 only

Next time, marks/comments will be sent

privately
You send your report via email
I will read and reply your email, only you know the
marks

Discussion about Lab 0/1Part A

Common mistakes
Changing the story >.<, strong penalty
Not really answering the question
e.g. arrive at lecture, what lecture? what time?

Too long winded, fine as long as logical enough

e.g. 10 large steps vs 3! (Note about human
temporary memory)

Funny story, just make me laugh, no penalty

Flat answer, no indentation, minor penalty

You are all different =)

Discussion about Lab 0/1Part B

Common mistakes
Too long winded

Discussion about Lab 0/1Part C

Common mistakes or mistakes

Average age? We never say age here!

Part i, ii, iii, and iv again! Too long winded
Indentation issue, variable naming issue
Matlab functions vs functions in the problem
description!
disp/sprintf vs say, ~= vs !=, ./ vs /, clear all? (not described)

Stopping criteria must be -1, not <0 or anything else!

Excessive usage of comments >.<
Division by zero for extreme case :p (-1 at the start)
Slight error, how to correct the effect of -1?

Quick Test
Simple test to roughly gauge your initial skills:

Convert this Decimals to Binaries: 10, 20, 32.

Convert this Binaries to Decimals: 101, 1001, 1005.
Tell me the actual value of: 1e2, 2e-1.
Write Hello <yourname> in MATLAB.
Compute: 234 / (80 + 2) * 72 189 \ 5 + 2 in < 10
seconds.
What is sin(pi)?
Create an array of size 4*5, containing all 1.
[1 2] .* [2 1] =
[3 4]
[2 1]

Lab 2 Starting Matlab

Lets follow the instructions!

Top Down Design

A hands on
Lets solve this simple problem:
Steven is a young schoolboy.
His mother gives him 25$ pocket money per
week.
Steven spends his money wisely.
By the end of each week, he usually has some money
to be saved.
A random value between 0.0$ to 25.0$

Steven wants to know his savings over one

year.

Extra Materials
How can you help yourself with MATLAB?
Visit MathWorks website
Go to support documentation.
e.g. disp versus say, input, sprintf