BASICS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Giovanni PICCITTO
Credit Value: 3
Taught classes: 21 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

To give the fundamental skills required to get started with analysing data and programming as a tool for solving scientific problems using Matlab. An introduction of LaTex will be also given.


Course Structure

Lectures with laptop in classroom.

Should the circumstances require online or blended teaching, appropriate modification to what is hereby stated may be introduced, in order to achieve the main objectives of the course.


Detailed Course Content

Basic functions of Matlab

Introduction to LaTeX.

C.F.Van Loan, K Y Daisy Fan, Insight through computing, SIAM


Textbook Information

S.Attaway, MATLAB a practical introduction to programming and problem solving.

BH S. Linge, H.P. Langtangen, Programming for computations MATLAB/Octave, Springer.

C.F.Van Loan, K Y Daisy Fan, Insight through computing, SIAM

Dilip Datta, LaTeX inn 24 hours, A practical guide for scientific writing, Springer

Lorenzo Pantieri, LaTeXpedia, online