The following python notebook that you will work in the Lab runs you through basics of working with matrices in python/numpy.
The exercises you submit focus on linear combinations, and gets you to observe that matrix multiplication produces linear combinations. This is the big takeaway, all matrix multiplication is just a way of tracking linear combinations.
All lab reports are due 1 week after you finish the material in class. You are welcome to take your TA’s help or my help to do the labs, or to discuss this in office hours.