1. Cath Wilkins wilkins@maths.ox.ac.uk
Maple Projects HT 2009
Cath Wilkins

2. This lecture: The projects Working with the templates
Submitting your projects
Getting help
Plagiarism
Common pitfalls
Maximizing marks

3. The projects
Project 1 - Compulsory (based on LinearAlgebra – must have read Appendix A in MT Manual)‏
Project 2 - Your choice of one project from Projects 2-5 (Graphics, Waves, Permutations, Countdown)‏

4. The projects
Submit each project as a .mw Worksheet using ‘Maple Notation’
Submission deadlines are Friday noon Week 5 (Project 1) and Week 8 (Project 2)
For Mods each project counts as a question (a paper being 5 questions)‏

5. Working with the templates
Right click on worksht1.mw (from website) and 'Save As' ans1.mw
Write your answers (Maple code or text) in the spaces provided
Save the final version after removing all output (but leave semi-colons to generate the output you want seen)‏
Make sure your name and college do not appear in your file

6. Working with the templates
[Project 1: Linear algebra [> restart: [> with(LinearAlgebra): [Exercise 1 [ [Exercise 2 [ [Exercise 3

7. Working with the templates
[Project 1: Linear algebra [> restart: [> with(LinearAlgebra): [Exercise 1 [> int(x^2,x=0..2); [Exercise 2 [ [Exercise 3

8. Working with the templates
[Project 1: Linear algebra [> restart: [> with(LinearAlgebra): [Exercise 1 [> int(x^2,x=0..2); [Exercise 2 [ The required area is 8/3. [Exercise 3

9. Submitting your projects
Details on the course website
Electronic submission, from anywhere with internet connection
University Single Sign On username (eg shug0842) and password needed
Deadlines are absolute - don’t leave it to the last minute
Make a declaration that it’s all your own work

10. Getting Help No scheduled sessions by college
Small computer room, 2 South Parks Road available: Weeks 2,3,4,6,7 Mon-Fri Weeks 5 and 8 Mon,Tues 2-4, Weds,Thu 2-5, Fri (Demonstrator present except for 2- 3 slots on Mon-Thu of Wks 5 and 8)

11. Other sources of help College tutors can help with any maths involved
For queries specific to the projects me

12. Plagiarism
Projects must be your own unaided work and you will be asked to make a declaration to this effect when you submit them

13. Common pitfalls
Marks are mainly lost through not reading the question properly
Find the first four terms
Plot the graph for x in [0,Pi]
write a Maple procedure
Colons in place of semi-colons
Maple code won’t run when executed
Wrong Maple input used

14. To maximize marks:
Make sure you read the question - and then answer it
Put in some lines of comment to explain what your code is doing
Summarize your findings in words at the end of each exercise
Remember that there are two extra marks for ‘elegant and concise’ code

15. 'Elegant and concise' code
Automate repeat actions using loops and/or procedures
Assign expressions and solutions to variable names where appropriate – particularly important to avoid losing accuracy when using computed values