Advanced Programming - Winter 12

Term

Winter 12

Lecturer

Dr. rer. nat. Tobias Weinzierl

Time and Place

Lecture: see TUMOnline

Audience

Computational Science and Engineering, first semester (module IN1503)

Tutorials

Kaveh Rahnema, M.Sc. , Dipl.-Inf. Martin Schreiber

Exam

see below and TUMOnline for announcement and registration

Semesterwochenstunden / ECTS Credits

4 SWS (2V+2Ü) / 5 Credits

TUMonline

Lecture

Tutorials

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News

• Starting from November 13, 2012, the lecture takes place in the Interimshörsaal 2 (black building next to the Computer Science building).

Lecture Slides & Tutorial

The tutorial offers weekly programming exercises in C++. They are inspired by common problems from scientific computing. Besides the tutorials, programming consulting is offered.

Nr.	Week	Lecture	Hands-on report	Exercise	Exercise Material	Note
	October 15-19, 2012					No tutorials, no lecture due to CSE introductory week
	October 22-26, 2012	Introduction, variables, identifiers & expressions				No tutorials, only lecture
	October 29-November 2, 2012		History of computer architectures & the C programming language	Worksheet 1	Source 1	No lecture due to Allerheiligen/Allerseelen
	November 5-9, 2012	Control structures, branches & scopes	IDEs & Debugging	Worksheet 2	Source 2
	November 12-16, 2012	Functions & functional programming	Unit tests & test paradigms	Worksheet 3	Source 3	Changed lecture room for the subsequent weeks
	November 19-23, 2012	Applicative programming & source code organisation	The build process: makefiles and beyond	Worksheet 4	t.b.a.	Lecture moved to 02.09.014 on short note
	November 26-30, 2012	Pointers, structs & arrays 1	Memory architectures & function pointers in C	Worksheet 5	Source 5	Changed lecture room for the subsequent weeks (back to Medienraum)
	December 3-7, 2012	Pointers, structs & arrays 2	BLAS, SSE, and low-level math routines	Worksheet 6	---
	December 10-14, 2012	Recap session	Performance analysis	Worksheet 7	---
	December 17-21, 2012	Object-based programming	OpenMP	Worksheet 8	t.b.a.
	January 7-11, 2013	Object-oriented programming	TBB	Recap	t.b.a.
	January 14-18, 2013	t.b.a.	MPI	Worksheet 9	t.b.a.
	January 21-25, 2013	t.b.a.	Expression templates	Worksheet 10	t.b.a.
	January 28-February 1, 2013	C++11	Applied C++11	t.b.a.	t.b.a.
	February 4-8, 2013	Recap	Recap	Recap	t.b.a.

Slides, information on lecture rooms, schedules, exam registrations, and so forth are available at TUMOnline.

Tutorials

Nr.	Weekday	Time	Room	Tutors
1	Tuesday	4:30 pm	02.07.023	Arash Bakhtiari <bakhtiar AT in DOT tum DOT de>, Dmitry Pinaev <pinaev AT in DOT tum DOT de>
2	Friday	8:30 am	02.07.023	Carlos Pachajoa <cpachaj AT gmail DOT com>, Marco Seravalli <marco DOT seravalli AT tum DOT de>

Prerequisites

Basic programming skills are recommended.

Exam

Exam duration: to be announced.

Helping material: Any written material (no electronic devices) may be used during the exam.

Content: All topics of lecture and tutorials.

Recommended Reading

These links provide further information on particular topics. For literature, please consult the modul description IN1503 of the course.

• Using g++
• Difference between C and C++ (at least some of them)
• Doxygen
• Doxys
• The Art of Computer Programming
• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
• Remarks on C (German)
• Eclipse with C/C++ Development Tooling