Preliminaries

Q1. What is your name and what is your major?

Q2. Please tell me about your research interests.

Q3. List any courses you took in the past which required for you to use computers, including word processings.

Q4. What do you want to get the most out of it from this class? What is your motivation in taking this class?

Q5. What do you think scientific computing is about? Why do you think people study that?

Q6. What kinds of computing resources and softwares have you used?

Q7. What kind of computer(s) do you own and what do you do with them?

Q8. Do you have any computing exprience using Unix/Linux, or Mac OS X?

Q9. Are you familiar with LaTex?

Q10. Have you heard about version control, for instance, svn or git?

Q11. Have you been involved in any group project in the past?

Q12. How passionate are you in scientific computing? Please let me know if you have any comments and thoughts.