Topics

Topics: in principle everything is included, up to, and including the
lecture on Thursday, 02/06, and Project 2. As stated repeatedly, the
comments posted on the newsgroup and/or course web site are an
integral part of the course material.

1. Arithmetic
  1.1. Simple operators: +, -, *, /, ^, rem.
  1.2. Precedence and associativity.
  1.3. Elementwise operators on vectors.

2. Vectors
  2.1. Creation ...
    2.1.1. From scalars;
    2.1.2. By concatenation;
    2.1.3. By using the $zeroes$ and $ones$ functions;
    2.1.4. By using the colon (:) operator;
    2.1.5. By assignment. 
  2.2. Access to array elements by indexing.
  2.3. Assignment to vector elements and vectors.
  2.4. Strings as arrays of characters.

3. Structs
  3.1. Creation ...
    3.1.1. By assignment to individual fields;
    3.1.2. By using the $struct$ statement.
  3.2. Assignments to structs.

4. Tracing
  4.1. Tabular method.
  4.2. Box scope method.

5. For loops
  5.1. Accumulation.

6. Conditionals

7. Random numbers (rand)

8. Rounding
  8.1. $Floor$ function.
  8.2. $Ceil$ function.

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We will provide you with a cheat sheet with the name and parameters of
functions you might find useful during the exam. We will not, however,
provide you with explanations on *what* the functions do. In other
words: if you know what you are looking for, but you don't know the
details (e.g. number and/or order of parameters), we will
help. Otherwise, you are on your own.

The following is the list of functions you can expect to have on your
cheat sheet:

 1. length
 2. max, min
 3. diff
 4. sum, cumsum
 5. prod, cumprod
 6. zeros, ones
 7. sort
 8. fliplr, flipud
 9. rand
10. floor, ceil