First Summer Class: ☑

Hey guys! We can finally have our summer vacation because our classes has officially ended! Hurrah! Last Friday, May 16, 2014 we had our final practical examination in our Numericals, and last Thursday, (May 15) we had our last long exam for ElectroMag.

So how was our summer class? Exciting and partly boring. Exciting because in Numericals, you have to do a LOT of simple and repetitive arithmetic solutions. Sometimes the quiz/exam is solved (in earlier lectures, using different methods), there's this thrill and adrenaline when you push the equals button, crossing your fingers and hoping that you get the same answer. Otherwise you have to carefully inspect your solution and say, "Where the hell did I go wrong?" I said that many times; during seat works and exams. There was this one time that I finally arrived at the 'answer', and upon seeing the problem, I got one variable wrong. And that was 10 minutes before the exam was over. Lol. And boring because our ElectroMag (Electromagnetism) was a report type class. No further elaboration needed. 

Our final requirement for Numericals was to code a program in MatLab to compute for the solution/s of the numerical methods we discussed in our lecture (Finding the roots of an equation and systems of linear equations). It was by two's, and the teacher was the one who was gonna draw your partner. And by the weirdest possibilities, I ended up being with Melchor (who, by the way is the most programmer material in our batch. With me being the second. lol). Others was saying it was unfair (even if it was drawn by the instructor) and others demanded for a reshuffle. In the end, the teacher decided to stick with what was drawn. We were assigned to code a program to solve a system of linear equation using Cholesky's decomposition. It does seem unfair grouping two programmers together, so we helped the others with their code. I did code a fixed point iteration, a jacobi, a gauss-siedel, and a newton's. The codes were simple and straight forward. They will give you the 'root' or the answer directly. But they can be edited so that it will display the data through the iterations. I'm a good guy, so I will share them to you, should you ever need them. Check out this post.

Well, there you have it. I will try to make up for my inactiveness. Have a happy summer vacation and Cheers! ✌