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  <header>
    <prefix>G</prefix>
    <number>324</number>
    <name>Computer Applications and Information Technology</name>
  </header>
  <meetings>
    <meeting>
      <time>MW 10:15 - 11:20</time>
      <room>CH 1</room>
    </meeting>
    <meeting>
      <time>T Th 10:00 - 11:50</time>
      <room>CH 1</room>
    </meeting>
  </meetings>
  <messages>
    <message>Information is from last time course was taught</message>
    <message>Page will not update until Jan 2010. Texts may change</message>
  </messages>
  <description>
    The objective of this course is to become familiar with basic data collection, 
    data analysis, and data presentation. This involves learning the basics of digital 
    data and file formats, and the operation of some useful software packages for 
    data cvollection, management analysis and presentation.
  </description>
  <background>
    MTH 261 Introduction to Linear Algebra; PHYS 202 Heat and Magnetism (concurrent enrollment OK)
  </background>
  <textbooks>
    <textbook>
      <record>
        <rec-number>5335</rec-number>
        <ref-type name="Book">6</ref-type>
        <contributors>
          <authors>
            <author>Recktenwald, Gerald</author>
          </authors>
        </contributors>
        <titles>
          <title>Numerical methods with MATLAB: Implementation and application</title>
        </titles>
        <pages>786</pages>
        <dates>
          <year>2000</year>
        </dates>
        <pub-location>Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey</pub-location>
        <publisher>Prentice-Hall</publisher>
        <isbn>0-201-30860-6</isbn>
      </record>
    </textbook>
    <textbook>
      <record>
        <rec-number>5337</rec-number>
        <ref-type name="Book">6</ref-type>
        <contributors>
          <authors>
            <author>Tufte, Edward. R.</author>
          </authors>
        </contributors>
        <titles>
          <title>The Visual Display of Quantitative Information</title>
        </titles>
        <pages>200</pages>
        <edition>Second</edition>
        <dates>
          <year>2001</year>
        </dates>
        <pub-location>Cheshire, Connecticut</pub-location>
        <publisher>Graphics Press</publisher>
        <isbn>0-9613921-4-2</isbn>
        <urls></urls>
      </record>    
    </textbook>
  </textbooks>
  <schedule>
    <item>
      <number>1</number>
      <topic>Data Representation</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 1</linkText>
      <url>Week01/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
    <item>
      <number>2</number>
      <topic>Programming Structures</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 2</linkText>
      <url>Week02/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
    <item>
      <number>3</number>
      <topic>Reading data files</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 3</linkText>
      <url>Week03/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
    <item>
      <number>4</number>
      <topic>Relational database</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 4</linkText>
      <url>Week04/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
    <item>
      <number>5</number>
      <topic>Web file formats</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 5</linkText>
      <url>Week05/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
    <item>
      <number>6</number>
      <topic>Data analysis</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 6</linkText>
      <url>Week06/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
    <item>
      <number>7</number>
      <topic>Basic statistics</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 7</linkText>
      <url>Week07/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
    <item>
      <number>8</number>
      <topic>2D Data (Graphs)</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 8</linkText>
      <url>Week08/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
    <item>
      <number>9</number>
      <topic>3D Data (Maps)</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 9</linkText>
      <url>Week09/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
    <item>
      <number>10</number>
      <topic>Introduction to modeling</topic>
      <linkText>Material for week 10</linkText>
      <url>Week10/resources.xml</url>
    </item>
  </schedule>
  <grades>
    <grade>
      <percent>20</percent>
      <text>Mid-Term Examination</text>
      <due>5th or 6th week of term</due>
    </grade>
    <grade>
      <percent>20</percent>
      <text>Final Examination</text>
      <due>see PSU Final Exam Schedule</due>
    </grade>
    <grade>
      <percent>20</percent>
      <text>Weekly Assignments</text>
      <due>Due at time specified on assignment sheet</due>
    </grade>
    <grade>
      <percent>20</percent>
      <text>Term Paper</text>
      <due>Due at noon on the Friday of the 9th week of classes</due>
    </grade>
    <grade>
      <percent>20</percent>
      <text>Term Project</text>
      <due>Due at noon on the Friday of the last week of classes</due>
    </grade>
  </grades>
  <latePolicy>Assignments are due at the specified time. A late assignments grade will decay with a half-life of 320 hours.</latePolicy>
  <resources>
    <resource>
      <linkText>Academic Honesty Policy</linkText>
      <url>http://geomechanics.geology.pdx.edu/Courses/AcademicHonesty.pdf</url>
      <comment>Required reading for all students</comment>
    </resource>
    <resource>
      <linkText>Dr. Hulbe's MatLab tutorial</linkText>
      <url>http://web.pdx.edu/~chulbe</url>
      <comment>Part of G326 course material</comment>
    </resource>
    <resource>
      <linkText>Old exams</linkText>
      <url>OldExams</url>
      <comment>Exams from previous years</comment>
    </resource>
  </resources>
</course>
