| # | Date | Topics | Reading | Handouts | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | M 10/5 | Using Excel to do shift and affine ciphers | - | (handout) | HW A: On handout, do problems 1, 3, 4 for practice. Hand in number 5. |
| - | M 10/19 | The Hill cipher | Barr 2.9 | - | HW A (con't): p. 171: 1ab, 3ab, 4 (check your answers for the last problem). (Due 10/14) |
| - | M 10/26 | [no meeting] | Handout "Introduction to Maple". Do the exercises. Only hand in what's below. | - | HW B: On the above: 3b (just the number of places, not the printout!!! (you'll see why), 11, 12 |
| - | - | - | - | - | HW C: p. 173: 5, 6, 8, 9 (the answer to #9 is wrong) |
| - | M 11/2 | Polynomials with coefficients in F_2 | - | - | - |
| - | M 11/9 | Matrix approach to LFSR | - | - | - |
| - | M 11/16 | [no class] | - | - | - |