The course is taught in the week of 15-19 August 2011, at the University of Aarhus, by Henning Bunzel and myself.
The material for the course will be made available and/or updated for a large part during the week. Before that time, some of the links below may be missing.
| File | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Program | Program for the week |
| Exercise elim, e0_elim.ox | Initial exercise, to study before the course |
| ge6.ox | Gauss elimination program, morning session |
| ibm0908tick.zip | IBM Tick data, September 2008 |
| ibmexam.zip, exdk11.pdf | IBM Tick data, December 2010, and genreacd, with exam |
| fxukjpdm.mat | FX exchange rate data fxukjpdm.mat |
| genrdur.fmt | Some generated duration data (1000 rows with y, x1, x2) |
| maxols.ox, maxolspath.ox | The result of Thursday morning, path search |
| transpar.zip, exertranspar.pdf, | Transforming parameters, temporarily available |
| lists.zip | List of files for students |
| start.ox | Template start.ox for starting new file |
| nedit.rc | Nedit settings file, place in $HOME/.nedit. Includes all kinds of settings for Ox and LaTeX, on Linux |
| Day | Time | Lecture | Tutorial | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syntax | Syntax slides | |||
| Monday | Morning | Intro, Variables, Functions, Actions | ||
| Afternoon | Why, Elements, Droste | |||
| Tuesday | Morning | Steps, flow, recap of main concepts | ||
| Afternoon | Floating point, efficiency | |||
| Wednesday | Morning | Optimization, standard deviations | ||
| Afternoon | Restrictions, transformations, fixing pars | |||
| Thursday | Morning | Include, magic numbers, speed | ||
| Afternoon | - | Added capabilities, packages | ||
| Friday | Morning | Input/output, HF, Data selection | ||
| Afternoon | - | Speed 2, C, Fortran | ||
| All | zip | zip |
Another way of getting started with Ox is to study the Introduction to Ox by Jurgen Doornik and Marius Ooms.