Programming for Scientists COMP1730

Learning outcomes

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Students who succeed in all aspects of this course will be able to:

1. Design, write and debug small programs to solve practical problems of a scientific nature.
2. Have a practical understanding of the processing of scientific data.
3. Be able to describe and design small computer programs using both procedural and object-oriented methodologies.
4. Have an awareness of good program organisation.
5. Have an understanding of some widely-used algorithms.
6. Have an understanding of practical aspects of machine architecture including finite precision and rounding errors.