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93034 - Foundations of Computer Science T

Academic Year 2023/2024

                
                        Docente:
                        Michele Lombardi
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        ING-INF/05
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Electrical Energy Engineering (cod. 5822)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale
                        
                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Feb 21, 2024 to Jun 06, 2024

Learning outcomes

The student is introduced to the principles, project methodologies and fundamental tools for the development of computer applications, investigating some classic computational problems, proceeding for each of them to the identification of suitable solution algorithms, formalized in terms of the C programming language. The student acquires: - familiarity and mastery of the programming language; - ability to translate a problem into an algorithm; - theoretical aspects of computer science and computing systems.

Course contents

After a discussion with the Electrical Engineering course coordination, the course program has been modified to use Python as a target language. All other learning outcomes are unchanged.

The course content will include:

Introduction to Computer Science
Using the terminal emulator
Python interpreter and Jupyter notebbok
Structured Programming
Functions
Collections
Operative System and Hardware
Vector computations in Python
Elements of Functional Programming in Python
Elements of Object Oriented Programming in Python
Elements of numerical methods in Python

In terms of applications, the course will focus on the solution on using Python to address numerical problems.

Readings/Bibliography

There is no reference text: teaching material will consists of interactive notebooks and PDF slides, with references to online resource for more details.

Teaching methods

The course will meld lectures delivered as tutorials with hands-on sessions.

Assessment methods

The exam will consist in practical test in one of the faculty labs. Bringing your own PC will not be necessary.

Teaching tools

The course material will consists of interactive Jupyter notebooks and PDF slides.

All lectures will be recorded.

Office hours

See the website of Michele Lombardi