Today’s code has been pushed to the class git repo!

Quiz #1 has been posted to Canvas, and is due Friday at midnight. It is open-book, open-notes, open-four-function-calculator, closed-Python, closed-other-humans, closed-AI, and timed at 60 minutes. Good luck! Reminder to those with accommodations: you must remind me before you take each and every quiz that you need your extra time added! Canvas will not do…

Apparently, they just closed campus for the rest of the week. For us, this means: Class will be on Zoom Thursday, just as it was today (same Zoom link). Office hours will be at the usual times, but on Zoom (same Zoom link). The next reading check is postponed until Feb. 3rd. Stay warm!

We will have class tomorrow (Jan. 27th) at the usual time, on Zoom. Please check the Canvas announcement for the Zoom link (it’s the same link I always use). Be sure to warm up your webcam! Also, office hours will be on Zoom tomorrow at the usual time as well.

I’ll be available via Zoom on Monday at the usual office hours time. (See the “Office” tab, above.) My Zoom link is in a Canvas announcement.

Sometime in the next week or so, read through the Numpy beginners tutorial, especially if you’re new or new-ish to Numpy.

For a chunk of up to +10XP, complete this homework before next Saturday, to bolt home your numerical calculus understanding!

I’ve added a “Notes” tab to the menu bar of this website, from which you can get the PDFs of all the notes I manage to create this semester. The idea is that if you missed getting a physical copy in class, you can print out your own (or just read it) from that page.…

The numerical calculus example code from yesterday has been posted to the class git repo (see “Repo” link in the menu bar, above). There are two ways to access it: The best way. Clone the repo to your own system, then browse the files from there. (See Ian’s excellent CPSC 225 notes for instructions on…

I’ve posted my answers to reading check #1. (Yours don’t necessarily have to match mine exactly.)

It was pointed out to me that homework #0 erroneously stated that you were required to use vim and other command-line tools for this class. It’s a lie! For this course, you can use whatever editor you choose: Spyder, Eclipse, vim, Visual Studio, Notepad++, or whatever. All that’s required is that you can edit text…

The first reading check of the semester will be at 3:30pm on Thursday the 15th (snow permitting) and will cover part 1 of Isaac Asimov’s original Foundation novel. This excerpt can be found in Canvas under the “files” tab.

To earn any points for anything this semester, you first have to be on the class scoreboard! Click on the “New Student” tab, and provide: Your real full name (do use any nickname you’re commonly known by — i.e., put “Lizzie Bennet” not “Elizabeth Bennet” if you go by Lizzie) A super secret screen name…

Greetings, Earthlings, and welcome to the 2026 version of DATA 420 — Modeling and Simulation with Stephen! This site is gonna be hip-hoppin’ with all kinds of great stuff real soon, so stay tuned!