COMP116 - Tutorial Classes - Overview

The series of tutorial work sheets is intended to give you some practice with applying methods discussed during lectures. The questions should be completed in advance of your scheduled tutorial and feedback (verbal) will be provided by the demonstrator/member of staff directing the tutorial during the class itself.

Should you wish written feedback you should proceed in the following way:

1. Forward (by e-mail) an electronic version of your completed work (pdf file produced from either a scanned version of handwritten work or prepared using a suitable text-formatting program, eg LaTeX, etc.).
2. Use your university account (so-called ''Liverpool Life e-mail'') to send e-mail.
   Do not use hotmail, gmail, yahoo, or other e-mail services.
   This is not meant as a comment on the quality (or otherwise) of these providers, simply that as a matter of security, I always delete (without opening) e-mails from sources that I do not recognise.
   Messages sent from approved University accounts will not fall into this category.
3. Please try to be as specific as possible about points you would like to be elaborated, ie it is difficult to provide any sort of focused support in response to ''I don't understand any of this''; in contrast detailed questions such as ''How do you get claim X from assertion Y?'' or ''What happens in case X if I do this?'' are far more likely to receive helpful, constructive answers.
4. While it is recognised that in the course of preparing for (assessed) class tests and exams, you may identify some points from previous work sheets that appear unclear and, in such circumstances it is, of course, perfectly acceptable to seek advice, in general, please try to coordinate queries so that these are ''reasonably close'' to the tutorial at which they arose. In other words, try to avoid asking about something on e.g. Worksheet 2 when Worksheet 7 is current.

Tutorials are offered as a means of academic support in addition to formal lectures. In order to monitor engagement with the module, attendance at scheduled tutorials is required and will be monitored through the standard Departmental system. If you wish to receive comments on work that was set for a given class and discussed therein either the class register must confirm that you attended the relevant tutorial or you must have lodged an Extenuating Circumstances Claim providing acceptable grounds for being unable to attend, (ie within the University Code of Practice on Extenuating Circumstances as described in CoPA Appendix M and Annex 1 to this). Extenuating Circumstances claims can be lodged by completing this form.

Please note that since tutorial exercises are unassessed, there is no need to complete an Extension Request Form.

Feedback will NOT be provided on written work if:

1. you have not attended the tutorial to which the work refers

   AND

2. have failed to provide documented, acceptable Extenuating Circumstances for non-attendance.

There will be a total of seven (7) worksheets whose themes will form the basis of discussion for the scheduled tutorials. The relevant links below will become live at the start of the week preceding the tutorial class to which the worksheet refers, eg if the topic of discussion is to be looked at in tutorial classes scheduled in Week 4 of the semester then the relevant worksheet will be available no later than Monday of Week 3.

While it may arise (on occasion) that the topics covered in a particular worksheet are (one hopes only slightly) ahead of how far lecture material has reached, should this occur you should still make some effort to complete the exercises to the best of your capabilities. Remember all of the module notes are available and, since the tutorials do not involve assessed elements it is unimportant if your solutions have gaps: as has been stressed earlier, you will gain more understanding of a topic by attempting to tackle exercises (even if unsuccessful) than by simply giving up.

For each tutorial class there will be a specified topic already covered (subject to the provisions mentioned above) in the lectures. Each tutorial package consists of

1. A pdf file containing details of the worksheet for the tutorial concerned.

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   Worksheet Schedule

   These data will become available upon commencement of the module in 2020.

   1. Worksheet #1 Numbers & Polynomials
      1. Worksheet Questions
         • Model solutions

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   2. Worksheet #2 Vectors & Matrices
      1. Worksheet Questions
      2. Model solutions

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   3. Worksheet #3 Derivatives and Roots (again)
      1. Worksheet Questions
      2. Model solutions

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   4. Worksheet #4 Optimization and Quadratic Regression
      1. Worksheet Questions
      2. Model solutions

   5. Worksheet #5 Complex Number Manipulation
      1. Worksheet Questions
      2. Model solutions
         1. Source code for Quadratic Julia Set Construction
         2. Source code for Julia Sets of form z^k+c (cases in second part of this)

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   6. Worksheet #6 Statistics and Simple Data Analysis
      1. Worksheet Questions
      2. Model solutions

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   7. Worksheet #7 Modelling with Matrices & Spectra
      1. Worksheet Questions
      2. Model solutions