Introduction

Here are slides for today's introductory lecture: Click here for slides.

Class will be shortened today due to a weather related university closing. This assignment should take you 5 minutes. Its purpose is to test the computer resources and make sure everything is running so we can get to work on Thursday, January 29.

Open MATLAB. Type

A = randn(10000,1);
hist(A,100)

You should see a bell curve histogram. Open PowerPoint. Open "Grab" under "Utilities" in the "Finder Window" under the Applications Tab. Take a screenshot of the bell curve with Grab. Drop into PointPoint. Use Text tools to sign your name. Save.

• Homework 1: Email me your PowerPoint with the screenshot.