One recitation class early in the term should be held in an Instructional Microcomputer Laboratory (IML) instead of the regular classroom. Reservations made by the department can be checked. Lecturers should announce details of this meeting and obtain copies of the printed material from the department mail room. These printed versions of the Maple Instructions and the description of Lab0 should be distributed in lecture before the meeting in the IML or at that meeting.
In the IML, you will obtain a copy of the seed file and supplementary worksheet from this page, start Maple and work through the instructions in Lab0. You should save your work in your eden directory in order to continue working on the lab. Your finished report will be collected in approximately two weeks. Lab0 will be graded in order to illustrate the grading standards for this work, but the grade will normally not be counted toward the course grade. As each lab is collected for grading, you should obtain the description and seed file for the next lab from this page (or another site provided by your instructor).
You will need to save a copy of the seed file to open in Maple. The best method, introduced in December 2002, uses the special mime-type application/x-maple-xml for the new xml format defined on the math server. The first time your browser meets one of these files, it should ask you what you want to do with it. The best choice is Save to Disk. If you are not given this choice, you should use one of the options below. (1) You can configure your browser's preferences to recognize these types and do something reasonable with them (it is possible to have the browser start maple, but this has only been tested on math department workstations, so "Save to Disk" may be the best choice) ; or (2) click the right mouse button on the link to get a context menu and select save to disk; or (3) (in Netscape) press the shift key and click the left mouse button to get the save to disk dialog directly; or (4) if your browser shows you the file as text, use the SaveAs item on the file menu to save a local copy. (This last option may be unreliable since it can introduce line feeds that will confuse the new worksheet format.)
The labs were modified for the Fall 2005 semester, and slight changes introduced for Spring 2006. The printed versions of the Instructions and Lab 0 will still have the Fall 2005 date, but other labs will have the date of Spring 2006, event if no other changes have been made.
More files are available, but not yet uploaded. See Main Course Page for previous version.