Readings abbrevations:

1. NDAC: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, Strogatz
2. Python: Learning Python, Mark Lutz, Fourth Edition
3. For all others see the Nonlinear Physics Reader at http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/nlp/Reader.html and the Supplemental Reading at http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/nlp/SupplementalReading.html.

Readings: Topics and dates are being updated as the quarter evolves!

1. Introduction (30 March): Chaos, Scientific American, and Odds, Stanislaw Lem
2. Programming Lab A (1 April): Python, Part I (Chapters 1-3) and Part II (Chapter 4, pp. 75-78, and Chapter 5).
3. Dynamics Lecture 2 (6 April): NDAC, Chapters 1 and 2.
4. Programming Lab B (8 April): Python, Part II (Chapters 4 and 7-9) and Part III (Chapters 11-13).
5. Dynamics Lecture 3 (13 April): NDAC, Sections, 6.0-6.4, 7.0-7.3, and 9.0-9.4.
6. Programming Lab C (15 April): Python, Part III (Chapters 4, 8, and 15), Part IV (Chapters 16-18), and Part V (Chapters 21-22).
7. Dynamics Lecture 4 (20 April): NDAC, Chapter 3.
8. Programming Lab D (22 April): WWW & Guide to NumPy.
9. Dynamics Lecture 5 (27 April): NDAC, Chapter 8 and Sections 10.0-10.4.
10. Programming Lab E (29 April): WWW.
11. Dynamics Lecture 5 (4 May): NDAC, Chapter 8 and Sections 10.0-10.4.
12. Programming Lab F (6 May): WWW & Python, Part II (Chapters 4 and 6), Part VI (Chapters 25-31), and Part VII (Chapters 32-35).
13. Dynamics Lecture 6 (11 May): NDAC, Sections 12.0-12.3, 9.3, and 10.5.
14. Programming Lab G (13 May): Lecture Notes on Numerical Integration.
15. Dynamics Lecture 7 (18 May): NDAC, Sections 9.3-9.4 and 10.5-10.7.
16. Programming Lab H (20 May): WWW.
17. Dynamics Lecture 8 (25 May): Lecture Notes.
18. Programming Lab I (27 May): WWW.
19. Programming Lab J (3 June or earlier): WWW.

You will find the lectures vastly more understandable having done the reading for each beforehand.