BASICS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Giovanni PICCITTO
Credit Value: 3
Taught classes: 14 hours
Laboratories: 15 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 3
Taught classes: 14 hours
Laboratories: 15 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
Give the fundamental skills required to get started with programming as a tool for solving scientific problems.
Detailed Course Content
Variables. Numerical expressions. Vector and Matrices. Scripts. Scripts with input/output. Scripts to produce and customize simple plots. If statements. Loop statements
Textbook Information
S.Attaway, MATLAB a practical introduction to programming and problem solving, BH S. Linge, H.P. Langtangen, Programming for computations MATLAB/Octave, Springen C.F.Van Loan, K Y Daisy Fan, Insight through computing, SIAM