Programming and Data Structures: Spring 2012

Course Information

• Instructor: Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan.sarkar@gmail.com>
• Midterm instructions

References

• The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.

Grading (tentative)

• Mid-term Exam: 30%
• End-term Exam: 50%
• Project: 20%

Assignments

• Groups
• Assignment 1 (due January 30)
• Assignment 2 (due February 6)
• Assignment 3 (due February 13)
• Assignment 4 (due date to be announced later)

Code examples

• January 10: example_1.c
• January 13: example_1.c, example_2.c
• January 17: example_3.c
• January 23: example_4.c, cla.c, sin.c
• January 31: normal_mle.c, generate-data.R
• February 7: lgamma.c
• February 10:
  • beta.c
  • beta.h
  • beta_mle.c
  • beta_mle_rmath.c
  • generate-beta.R
  • For repeating data generation using R and MLE using C:

    $ for i in {1..5}; do R CMD BATCH generate-beta.R ; ./beta_mle data.txt ; done
    $ for i in {1..20}; do R CMD BATCH generate-beta.R ; ./beta_mle data.txt ; done > mle.txt
    

  • For doing so in C using the standalone R math library:

    $ gcc -o beta_mle_rmath beta.c beta_mle_rmath.c -lRmath -lm

  • GSL documentation
• February 14: 0214.zip (unzip for files)
• February 21: 0221.zip (unzip for files)
• March 6: mle.R. For a good explanation of how this code works, see this paper about scoping rules in R.

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Last updated: Thu Mar 8 2012