Computing for Engineers | ENGG1811 25T3

Replacement lecture Friday Week 4 (10 Oct)

Please note that Monday of Week 4 is a public holiday so the usual lecture will not run. This is to give you an advance notice that we will run a replacement lecture on Friday Week 4 (10 Oct) at 4-6pm in Ainsworth G03. The weekly Tuesday lecture will run as usual. 

You can find information on lecture times and locations at the "Timetable" page on the course website. 

Learning Support

Please note that the following learning support activities will start from Week 2: 

• Live Coding Sessions: These are interactive sessions where the session leader (Callum) explores solving computational and coding problems. Students in the past have found these sessions very helpful for them. They are scheduled on Tuesdays 1-2pm in Quad G045 and is in-person. 
• Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) are weekly group study sessions led by senior students who have successfully completed ENGG1811 before. There are two groups this term, one on Wednesday (on campus) and the other on Thursday (online). 

You can find further information on the "Learning Support" page at the course website. 

Lecture recordings / Final code / Weekly exercises

I hope everyone had a good start for their Week 1. I'd like to ensure that everyone knows about the following:

• Lecture recordings are available at the Echo360 site. You can access them via the ENGG1811 Moodle page or using a link on the Lectures page on the course website.
• For each week, we post preliminary code for us to work on in the lecture and we post final code after the lecture. You can find all sample code under the "Lectures" page on the course web site. You can find the final code for Week 1 there.
• As I mentioned in the lecture yesterday, I have posted some exercises on the course forum. If you go to the course forum, click on the "Exercises" link on the left, you will find them. Exercises will be posted each week in the same way. Programming is a practical task, the more you work on it, the better you become. I would like to encourage everyone to work on them. You can reply to these exercise posts with your solution, ask questions and help the other students with their questions.

Welcome to ENGG1811!

We hope that you are ready to learn some computing with us for this term. There are a number of important points that we would like to let you know.

• The main course website for ENGG1811 is located at: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~en1811. We ask you to bookmark the page. Please note that you will need to log in using your zID and zPass.
• The course outline is available at the course website.
• You will be learning to solve computation problems using the Python programming language in ENGG1811. We do not expect any prior experience in programming and will start from scratch.
• You will need a free software called Anaconda. Please install it on your computer before the first lecture. You will need Anaconda for your lectures, labs, assignments etc. Instructions for installing Anaconda can be found at the "Getting Started" page on the course website. 
• The lectures are in hybrid format meaning that the in-person and online lectures will take place simultaneously. The in-person lectures are in Rex Vowels. Instructions for joining the online lectures are available at the "Lectures" page on the course website.
• Lecture materials for Week 1 are available at the "Lectures" page.
• Labs commence in Week 1. The lab exercises for Week 1 are available at the "Labs" page. Information on attending the labs is at the "Timetable" page.
• If you have questions, you can ask on the course forum. Click on the "Course forum" link on the website. You need to self-enrol, which is automatic when you enter the forum.

We look forward to an exciting term. And, please do get Anaconda installed before the first lecture on Monday at 11am.

Chun Tung Chou (Convenor and Lecturer)
Larry Tang (ENGG1811 Course Admin)