Tillämpad programmering och datalogi för magister, 7,5 poäng

Aktuell/nästa kursomgång: appcs12.

This course is given in English and is primarily directed to students in KTH's Master program Scientific Computing and students from Stockholm University taking the Master program of Physics.
Other students are also welcome!

The English name of the course is Computing Science for Scientific Computing and indicates that the emphasis will be to present selected material from computing sience that is important for a person working with scientific computing.
A very short description of Scientific Computing can be found on the home page of the Master Program on Scientific Computing

The contents of the course will be covered by lecture notes, exercises and lab descriptions. There is no book covering the course, but references will be given for those who want to read more on certain parts.

The first part of the course will deal with data structures implemented in the Matlab language with cell arrays and structs. Based on these we can implement abstract data structures such as stacks, queues, records etc. Why Matlab? Because it is very important in scientific computing and should therefore be used for a first demonstration of data structures. Next part of the course introduces the C language and more abstract data structures to be implemented and exercised with in computer labs.

The course consists of lectures, classes and computer labs.