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ECE 204ANumerical Methods 1

Faculty
Engineering
Last listed
Spring 2024

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2024; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.

Application of computational methods to engineering problems. Number systems, errors and error propagation. Roots of nonlinear equations. Introduction to numerical linear algebra. Interpolation and numerical integration. [Offered: F, W]

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: Level at least 2A Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering. Antireq: ECE 204

In today’s calendar

  • ECE 204 lists it as an antirequisite

Reviewed on UW Flow

29% liked it69% easy51% useful

From 45 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Matlab although useful is very silly in the way it works, it's good they are making this a whole course again.

    May 2017 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Just a tedious course all around. Spend an hour or two copying and pasting MatLab code, because lets be honest, there's no reason to actually understand it. The only good thing is that you can do the labs from home.

    Jun 2016 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Expect to spend around 2 hours / week on the prelabs, and anywhere between 2-4 hours on the weekly labs themselves. While not hard, this course combines two former courses and covers a lot. The final was not focused on memorizing algorithms, but entirely on walking you through the creation of new algorithms (entirely matlab coding).

    May 2016 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • Easy course, slightly interesting

    Feb 2016 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

16 posts and comments in 16 threads mention ECE 204A, July 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Fall 2018

ECE204 thread 23 points, 16 comments

“Idk if crying or praising but someone's inevitably gonna make the thread so it might as well be me”

u/solder_code_drink: “Looking back, i think this would have been a much better course if the matlab labs were incorporated. The material is pretty good I’d say but it was presented as a straight up pile of information …”

u/Frozen-Penis: “Ah rip. If I had to actually understand the math in ECE 204A and 204B I would have been fukd”

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Winter 2018

CS475 without CS370 2 points, 2 comments

“I'm an ECE student and I'm interested in taking CS475. I want to go into image processing and I feel it would be useful. …”

u/Frozen-Penis: “Are you EE or CE? If you are EE, seems like most of the CS 370 content is covered in ECE 204B so you probably could count it as equivalent. If you are CE maybe you can try to claim equivalency with ECE 204A, though not sure how it will go.”

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How do I study for ECE 204A? 1 point, 3 comments

u/goosemanwins: “This may be a dumb question but I'm rather worried about ECE 204A since I don't really understand what is going on now and am finding these labs very challenging...any tips from senior students who have already taken this course??”

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Fall 2017

Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments

“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”

u/Jackhofmann: “PSYCH 483 PSYCH 484 PSYCH 485 PSYCH 486 PSYCH 490R PSYCH 499A PSYCH 499B PSYCH 499C PSYCH 621 PSYCH 630 PSYCH 677A PSYCH 704A PSYCH 704B PSYCH 707 PSYCH 710 PSYCH 714 PSYCH 717 PSYCH 720A PSYCH 721A …”

u/Jackhofmann: “… 231R EASIA 301R EASIA 302R EASIA 360R ECE 103 ECE 105 ECE 150 ECE 190 ECE 200A ECE 200B ECE 204A ECE 204B ECE 205 ECE 206 ECE 207 ECE 209 ECE 222 ECE 224 ECE 240 ECE 242 ECE 250 ECE 254 ECE 290 ECE 300A ECE 300B ECE 318 ECE 356 ECE 358 ECE 361 ECE 390 ECE 400A ECE 400B ECE 451 …”

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Spring 2017

Most Bogus Course at Waterloo? 17 points, 28 comments

u/Vortex112: “ECE155 Thank God it was finally taken out behind the barn and shot between the eyes”

u/Frozen-Placenta: “… They now have them as their own half courses (ECE 204A in 2A and ECE 204B for 2B EEs) but are both going to be merged into a course, ECE 204, in the new curriculum (which I believe the curriculum from a decade ago had as ECE 104). …”

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Is there a program you are currently not enrolled in that you would enjoy taking out of interest? 15 points, 66 comments

“For example; you're in CS but would like to take Religious Studies out of curiosity, or a language class to learn a language particularly close to you, etc...”

u/Frozen-Placenta: “A whole bunch of upper year amath (and some pmath) courses seem pretty interesting to me, too bad there is no room in ECE. …”

u/Frozen-Placenta: “The only issue is that it seems to require amath 242, which requires calc 1, calc 3, and Lin alg 2. I have calc 1 and 3 equivalents, but the ECE linalg only covers a small part of 235 with not much proofs. I wonder if I can maybe get equivalency with ECE 204A and 204B.”

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Fall 2016

ECE 2A Term Average Calculation 9 points, 10 comments

u/yxpx: “Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone knew exactly how the term average is calculated with respect to ECE 204A? Is that course weighted half of the other courses in your average, or is it weighted as a full course?”

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