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The videos

Each week, the course will have two lectures. Each lecture will be divided into about five short videos. Both lectures will become available on Monday (at 12.01 am Eastern Standard Time). There are quiz questions embedded in the videos to help you check that you are understanding the material. These quizzes do not count towards your final grade.

The two weekly quizzes

Each week, there will be two quizzes (one per lecture) that do count towards your final grade. The two weekly quizzes will become available at the same time as the two lectures. To help keep you on track with the course, we will have due dates associated with the weekly quizzes. After the due dates, we will continue to accept late submissions with a penalty on your score.

The programming assignments

Programming assignments will become available at the beginning of weeks 2, 3, 5 & 7. You will need to answer questions about the results produced by the programs and your answers will count towards your final grade. As with the weekly quizzes, there will be due dates for the programming assignments. The first programming assignment will be very simple and will count less towards your grade. It is mainly intended to get you to download Octave and get used to using it (see the Octave installation link). We regret that we do not have the resources to support other languages, but if you have Matlab it should be simple to adapt the Octave code we provide. You will not need to submit any code.

The final test

On the monday of the ninth week the final test will become available and should be completed by the following monday. The final test will be 25% of the final grade, the programming assignments will be 35% and the weekly quizzes 40%.

Getting a certificate

Students who get a final grade of 70% or more will be able to get a certificate indicating that they did well in the course.

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