ECE-1021 PREREQUISITES
Deficiencies and How to Overcome Them
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The official prerequisites for this course are
ECE 1001 - Introduction to Robotics
MATH 135 - Calculus I
This course assumes you have a firm working knowledge of the material in these two courses plus the math background expected of someone that has completed a first calculus course. In particular, it is assumed that you have completed coursework in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry to include work with exponentials and logarithms as well as complex numbers including polar and Cartesian representations. If you don't, then it is your responsibility to review this material in whatever fashion and to whatever degree is necessary. You have many resources available to you to aid in this effort including:
The textbooks from these courses
Your instructor(s) for the prerequisite courses
Your instructor for this course
There is a limited about of review material on the course website.
Math Learning Center (located in Engineering 138)
EAS Tutoring Services (located in Engineering 132)
HKN Electrical Engineering Honor Society (located in Engineering 231)
In particular, your exposure in ECE 1001 to a limited version of the C programming language (NQC) is a prime building block for this course. You are expected to have a reasonable familiarity with the basic features of C including the general syntax, the basic operators, the various flow control structures, and programmer-defined functions.
You are strongly encouraged to take the opportunity to read the material in the first four chapters of the text for this course as quickly as possible. Most of this material should be familiar to you from your previous experience with NQC, although you will certainly find that some aspects go deeper than your previous exposure did. By reading these chapters early on, you will be in a position to clear up any confusion before we proceed with the material in Chapter Five.