Programming 2

Max amount of FITech students: 20

Persons without a valid study right to a Finnish university have preference to this course.

This course gives an introduction to computer architecture and program execution from gate level to high-level programming languages.

Course content: Programming abstractions and analysis of program performance. Aspects of functional programming, e.g. recursive definitions and recursion. Introduction to computer science and problem-solving with algorithms.

Upon successfully completing the course, the student

• understands the essential functional structure of a programmable computer and its operation during program execution
• understands the physical limitations and possibilities of computers, including the main computational resources (time, space, parallelism, etc) and how to put these into use
• can determine/measure the performance of a computer program in practice, in simple cases by inspecting only the structure of the program
• understands what is meant by an abstract interface and its implementation, including the possibility of alternative implementations with different performance characteristics
• understands the concept of recursion and can write programs that employ recursion and operate on recursive data structures
• knows the basics of algorithm design and analysis, including selected designs for fundamental combinatorial tasks (searching, sorting, etc.)

Schedule:

Lectures (not mandatory)

24.2.–30.3. Mondays at 10.15–12
1.4. Wednesday at 14.15–16
15.4.–22.4. Wednesdays at 14.15–16
4.5.–18.5. Mondays at 10.15–12

More information in Aalto University’s WebOodi course page.

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