Biocalculus Computer Laboratory
MAP 2480 Fall 2011 All Sections
GOTO Current: MAP 2480
- Meeting times: (All lab sessions meet in 107 MCH)
- T 12:30 - 1:45 -- Section 3 Instructor: Sengul/Ekrut
- T 2:00 - 3:15 -- Section 4 Instructor: Toole/Yildirim
- T 3:35 - 4:50 -- Section 5 Instructor: Jarrett/Kim
- R 12:30 - 1:45 -- Section 7 Instructor: Sengul/Ekrut
- R 2:00 - 3:15 -- Section 8 Instructor: Donahue/Yildirim
- R 3:35 - 4:50 -- Section 9 Instructor: Jarrett/Kim
- Lab Office Hours (Held in 107 MCH)
- M 3:35 - 4:50 Sengul/Yildrim
- W 3:35 - 4:50 Bellenot
- F 12:30 - 2:00 Jarrett/Yildirim
- Office Hours outside of the lab
- Steve Bellenot (bellenot at math.fsu.edu) MW2-3 223 LOV
- Matthew Donahue (mdonahue at math.fsu.edu) MT11-12, W1-2 402F MCH
- David Ekrut (dekrut at math.fsu.edu) MT8-9, W9-10 401A MCH
- Angela Jarrett (ajarrett at math.fsu.edu) F11:20-12:20 404A MCH
- Sarah Kim (skim at math.fsu.edu) F10-12 404C MCH
- Sevgi Sengul (ssengul at math.fsu.edu) R11-12 221D MCH
- Gregory Toole (gtoole at math.fsu.edu0 M10:05-11:05, W11:15-12:15, F1-2 401C MCH
- Tugba Yildirim (tyildiri at math.fsu.edu) M2:15-3:15, F2-3 221E MCH
Lessons Link (mild password protection) All Lessons
and the top ten scilab errors made by biolab students.
MapleTA Links
Bookmark these pages, they run independently of everything else.
If your fsu id is abc08z and your fsusn is XY7654321, then your login
will be abc08z and your password abc4321. You can find your FSUsn
here (If your fsu id has only
two initials, like ab08z and your fsusn is XY7654321, then your login
will be ab08z and your password ab4321.)
FAQ on mapleTA. There are several things that can cause confusion
about the way mapleTA shows the correct answers.
- mapleTA will show the the answer to sqrt(2) as 1.414214 plus/minus 0.001
but the plus or minus sign is not part of the answer. Instead it is telling
you that your answer must be correct within a 0.001. So if you answered
1.41, it would be marked wrong and if you answered 1.41455555 it would
be marked correct
- mapleTA will add comma's to answers to mark the thousands and millions
etc. These are not part of the answer. If the answer is 1234567, mapleTA
will claim the answer is 1,234,567 but will mark 1,234,567 as incorrect.
- The lab portion gradebook will sometimes make it look like you
only have partial credit, for example claiming 1/2. Do not believe it,
the one on the top says you have full credit, the 2 on the bottom says
it took you two tries. The number of tries does not effect your grade.
(The gradebook is a link above all the assignments and the class name.)
- Only the best grade counts, (Except for postlabs),
if you get a 0 after getting a perfect
score, your grade is still the perfect score. Your postlab score
is maximum of the score on the first attempt and 0.85 * the score
on the second attempt.
- MapleTA is not the same thing as Maple, it is incorrect to shorten
MapleTA to Maple.
Our homework problems generate lots of computation, sometimes
the server is slow to present the problem. Sometimes it stops and needs
to be given a kickstart, do not count on the server being available
at the last minute.
READ THIS
Althought the homework server will allow you to
complete you work a little later than 5PM, it is a fickle machine. Homework
is due at 5pm, it you wait longer and the server doesn't like you
you are out of luck. (And yes it will be your fault.)
If for some reason
the server is not working, immediately email bellenot with a
careful description of your problem. Include exactly where the
error occurred and what the error message was. Do not assume that
someone else also has the same problem or error.
The Class Syllabus(aka Handout)
in PDF(Acroread Format).
And here is more details
Acroread is freely available from Adobe.
Your private gradebook
This has the same username password which is needed for the lessons.
[You will also have to add your-code.html to the url above.]
This grade book has the participation grade. At the
end of the course the MapleTA grades get moved here and your
final grade will get computed and reported here.
The free fsu email account are now managed from the FSUID site,
this link
will point you in the correct direction.
You can have your email forwarded to your favorite ISP
or you can read your mail directly from the web from this
link or you can
read your fsu email by several
other methods.
MAP 2480 is a computer calculus LAB course mainly for Biologists
Course Description From the Bulletin:
MAP 2480. Biocalculus Computer Laboratory (1). Prerequisite: MAC 2311. A
computer laboratory that applies calculus methods to solve problems in
biology, medicine, and physiology.
The Dropbox:
You Can Drop Files Here
References
- Letter from the Biology Department: Why this Course is Required
- This fall we will mainly being using the FREE
Scilab version 5.3.3, You
should download and install Scilab
on your computer.
- Matlab could be but is not used in this course, it is not free. A student
version is available at bookstore or online at
Mathworks. Matlab is installed
in the campus computer labs.
- Scilab is a free mathlab clone and availible from
scilab.org. Mac using INTEL machines and
Leopard (10.5) or Snow Leopard (10.6)
can just download version 5.3.3;
Mac users on PPC machines or INTEL machines running Tiger (10.4) must also
have X11 installed and use an older version of
scilab; here is help
if you need it. If you are running the newest version of Mac OS X which
is called Lion, then download the nightly build instead of scilab 5.3.3.
- Octave (like Scilab) is another free matlab clone Octave home
- FSU Math Tutor List
Last Modified: 2011-09-06