CS319 -- Scientific Computing

Course Information

Lecturer:	Dr Niall Madden Room ADB-1013, Arás de Brún (when campus is open) Phone:  (353) (0)91 493803 Email: niall.madden@nuigalway.ie Pronouns: he/him
Class times:	Wednesday 09:00-09:50 and 16:00-16:50 (online)
First class:	9am, Wednesday, 10 Feb 2021
Course Content:	Programming in C++; Object oriented programming; Scientific computing
Module descriptor:	See http://www.nuigalway.ie/course-information/module/CS319 for indicative content and learning outcomes.
Assessment:	4 lab assignments (4 × 10%), one in-class test (20%) and a project (40%).
Web sites:	Most content (videos, notes, etc) be hosted at NUIGalway.BlackBoard.com. Source code repository hosted at https://bitbucket.org/niallmadden/1920-cs319.
Links:	Code::Blocks, a free integrated development environment (IDE) for C++ (and other languages). If installing on Windows, download the codeblocks-17.12mingw-setup.exe version from http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/26 which includes minimal GCC compiler. An online C++ compiler, but there are lots of others. How to teach yourself programming in 21 days, by Abstruse Goose. Looking for some more programming exercises? Try Project Euler.