Week 1: Basic data types, operators & expressions

Prep work

• read Basic data types, operators & expressions
• read Getting user input & printing output
• read these sections in the MATLAB documentation on Floating-Point numbers:
  • Largest and Smallest Values
  • Accuracy of Floating-Point Data
  • Avoiding Common Problems with Floating-Point Arithmetic
  • play with the IEEE-754 Floating Point Converter (e.g. lookup the representation of 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3)

Coding exercises

• overflow demo
• Volume of a sphere
• Temperature converter

Assignment

• A1