Welcome to the course blog for CS 322 “Introduction to Scientific Computing!” This course covers a wide variety of scientific computing concepts and numerical methods, and, through this blog, we will establish some of their connections to the real world. Topics should be interesting and related to numerical computing in some way. Posts could cover any number of topics: a particular numerical method, its history, or the history of its inventor, or key roles of numerical computing in science and engineering, computer graphics, computer games, economics, famous disasters, space travel, supercomputing, robotics, etc. Learn, inform, and have fun!

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The interface for updating this blog is fairly straightforward. Please refer to this help page if you are having difficulty. If your problem persists, feel free to email TA Jeffrey Chadwick.

Sincerely,

FantasticFloat! (aka Prof. Doug James)

Acknowledgement: This blog was inspired by the “INFO 204 - Networks” blog.