Who are we?

• Maj IMM Ben Lauwens, 150 POL, D30.20, ben.lauwens@rma.ac.be

• Cdt IMM François Dossogne, 140 POL, D30.25 , francois.dossogne@rma.ac.be

Course description

Introductory programming course with an emphasis on learning to program in contrast to learning a programming language.

In the first part the students will discover the most important imperative programming techniques based on toy programming problems in Octave, Python, Julia and C++.

In the second part they will develop hands-on the skills to successfully finish a programming project.

Course Materials

• Handbooks:

  • Computer Organization and Design, David Patterson and John Hennessy
  • Think like a Programmer, Anton Spraul
  • Think Python, Allan Downley
  • Programming, Principles and Practice using C++, Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Fortran 95/2003 for Scientists and Engineers, Stephen Chapman
  • Octave Documentation
  • Julia Documentation
  • Python Documentation
  • C++ Documenation

• Jupyter notebooks: Lectures and Assignments

Evaluation

• Tests:
  • 1 written test after first part
  • continuous evaluation of the mini-projects
• Exam:
  • oral defense after written and computer preparation

Schedule

• Monday: 3-4 / 5-6
• Thursday: 3-4 / 5-6
• Theory (16h) followed by exercises (14h): 16x3h + 14x2h = 76h
• Mini-projects: guidance (9h) and hands-on (16hr): 9x3h + 18x2h = 63h