N V Fitton Assistant Professor of Mathematics Northern Virginia Community College 3001 North Beauregard Street Alexandria, VA 22311

   

	CONTACT INFORMATION
	Office: Bisdorf 352 Phone: 703 845-6516 E-mail: vfitton@nvcc.edu Fax: 703 845-6006   Top links: my complete schedule for the current semester (changed April 14), the sequence of all math courses at NVCC, and the computer science advising guide.
	Spring 2008
	This page contains some perennially useful help pages and brief, static information about the current semester. All updates after the semester has begun go to my  weblog. There are additional weblogs for  CSC 110 and for  CSC 206. Wow!   This semester's courses: Math 163, Precalculus I, TR 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. official outline  •  syllabus  •  policies  •  homework TI-83, TI-84, and TI-89 are the ONLY recommended calculators Text: Precalculus enhanced with graphing utilities, by Sullivan & Sullivan (fourth edition in green; third in blue will surely do) ISBN: 0-13-149092-3 we will do most Chapters 1 to 4 and some of 10 supplements at the bookstore are optional, not required   Math 241, Statistics I, MW 1 to 2:15 pm official outline  •  syllabus  •  policies  •  homework TI-83 and TI-84 calculators are the ONLY ones recommended for this class! here are the calculator operations you will need, in three pages (but the page numbers are for last year's book, R.I.P.) here's a better calculator reference in 30 pages Text: Elementary Statistics, sixth edition, by Bluman ISBN: 0-07-304825-9 we will do most of Chapters 1 through 9 supplements at the bookstore are optional, not required   Math 242, Statistics II, M 4:30 to 7:10 pm official outline  •  syllabus  •  policies  •  homework TI-83 and TI-84 calculators are the ONLY ones recommended for this class! here are the calculator operations you will need, in three pages (but the page numbers are for last year's book, R.I.P.) here's a better calculator reference in 30 pages Text: Elementary Statistics, sixth edition, by Bluman ISBN: 0-07-304825-9 we will have some brief review of Stat I and then do most of the rest of the book supplements at the bookstore are optional, not required   Computer Science 110, Introduction to Computing, MW 10:00 to 11:15 a.m. official outline  •  syllabus  •  policies  •   weblog for CSC 110 Texts: Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML, custom edition in NVCC Alexandria bookstore, by Felke-Morris ISBN: 0-536-49089-9 (or get the original, ISBN 0-321-43675-X, online) and Go! with Microsoft Office 2007: Getting Started by Gaskin et al. ISBN 0-13-157250-4   Computer Science 206, Assembly Language, M 4:30 to 7:10 p.m. official outline  •  syllabus  •  policies  •   weblog Text: Introduction to Assembly Language Programming for Pentium and RISC Processors, second edition, by Dandamudi ISBN: 0-387-20636-1 We will use open-source assembler NASM on the NVCC Linux server. Every course taught at NVCC has an official outline. It tells you and the rest of the world what to expect from an NVCC course, and it tells the faculty what to teach. Here are links to the outlines: math courses math sequence computer science courses computer science advising guide all courses all degree programs And here is our schedule for all classes.

CALCULATOR HELP

TI's own guidebooks for 83 and the 89   •   guides you can print (about ten pages each) to Excel and the TI-83 from Houghton Houghton Mifflin   •   need-to-know for TI-89 from Prentice-Hall   •   terrific guide for statistics on the 83 or 84, about 40 pages, by Derek Collis   To do statistics on a TI-89, you need to register at the TI web site and get special software called StatLE found at education.ti.com. I recommend this concise manual for the software. You also need the mega-download of TI-Connect software to install anything on the 89. Here are TI's instructions for everything.   Once you have both pieces and have the computer and 89 wired together, use the mouse to drop the StatLE icon on the TI-Connect icon. There is no need to get the new operating system that they offer. Good luck, and come see me if you're having trouble.

PLUS PLUS PLUS

just enough Linux to survive very useful Unix Tutorial Center offered by Norman Matloff of UC Davis Boolean laws   •   an Excel spreadsheet for checking Boolean expressions   •   proof by induction   I love    Logo — don't you?  •  NVCC computer science home page, maintained by Ric Heishman, which includes links for free compilers •  NVCC Linux server, brought to us by Tim Seaman      use a SecureShell client to log in      p.s. your CSC instructor can get you an account  •  Where to get the SecureShell client?      look on SSH web site for mirrors of older (v.3) non-commercial downloads      for example, here for links for all machines,      and here for an MS-Windows machine  •    NVCC Student Handbook, which tells your rights and obligations — you should know them!  •    my MS thesis  •  CV  •  bio   HHMI / GWU summer workshop 2004    Entrez-BLAST-ClustalX-WinClada flowchart how-to for MS Windows platform

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