CBE 263 Schedule 2026

Subject to Change

Class	Day	Date	Topic	HW #, due

1	Th	3-Sep	Course Introduction, AI, codes, file system
2	T	8-Sep	Excel basics	1, T 9/8
3	Th	10-Sep	Arrays, fill, locked cells, plotting	2, F 9/11
4	T	15-Sep	Nonlinear equations	3, T 9/15
5	Th	17-Sep	Curve fitting	4, F, 9/18
6	T	22-Sep	ODEs	5, T 9/22
7	Th	24-Sep	Midterm 1
8	T	29-Sep	Terminal/shell	6, T 9/29
9	Th	1-Oct	Python basics, VSCode, notebook files	7, F 10/2
10	T	6-Oct	Markdown, equations	8, T 10/6
11	Th	8-Oct	AI tools	9, F 10/9
12	T	13-Oct	Functions	10, T 10/13
13	Th	15-Oct	Conditionals, units	11, F 10/16
14	T	20-Oct	Midterm 2
15	Th	22-Oct	Loops	12, F 10/23
16	T	27-Oct	Arrays	13, T 10/27
17	Th	29-Oct	Variables, scope, tuples, dictionaries	14, F 10/30
18	T	3-Nov	Ploting, numpy files	15, T 11/3
19	Th	5-Nov	Modules and classes	16, F 11/5
20	T	10-Nov	Integration	17, T 11/10
21	Th	12-Nov	Midterm 3
22	T	17-Nov	Nonlinear equations	18, T 11/17
23	Th	19-Nov	Args/tuple expansion, nonlinear HW, examples	19 F 11/20
24	T	24-Nov	Interpolation	20 T 11/24
25	T	1-Dec	Curve fitting	21 T 12/1
26	Th	3-Dec	ODEs	22 F 12/4
27	T	8-Dec	Special topics	23 T 12/8
28	Th	10-Dec	Review