COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR PHYSICS

The student will acquire:

• capability to develop object-oriented software programs;
• a certain knowledge of advanced computer tools of current use in the fields of basic and applied research;
• capability to use the analogy tool to apply known solutions to new problems (problem solving);
• capability to design and implement experimental and theoretical procedures to solve problems of academic and industrial research or to improve existing results;
• capability to work with increasing degrees of autonomy, also assuming responsibility in the planning and management of projects;
• communication skills in Italian and English in the fields of object-oriented programming and artificial intelligence;
• capability to present one's own research or review activity to a generic audience.

Frontal lessons and practical exercises.

From structured programming to objects

- Revisiting of variables, addresses, arrays and pointers in C.

- Pointers to functions

- The passage of values ​​to functions and references

- Dynamic memory allocation

- Creation of libraries, headers, object files and linking.

- The concept of object-oriented programming applied to any programming language

- The concept of reusability of the code and its modifiability

- Practical examples of objects in C.

- Classes, data hiding and abstract data types

- Class-level members

- Builders and destroyers of objects

- Inheritance

- Polymorphism

- Examples of programming of objects of type:

- stacks, queues and trees.

Introduction to artificial intelligence techniques

- Fuzzy Logic

- Neural networks

- Clustering

- Genetic algorithms

- Genetic programming

- Applications in the field of Physics Frontal lessons and practical exercises

Notes provided in class.