Engineering Programming

Catalog description

A first course for students with no programming background who intend to use programming tools. The content starts with basic programming structures: data types, variables, program flow and its control, loops, functions, exceptions, classes and modules. Those topics are covered in Python or similar language with coverage of debugging and verification techniques. Then it extends to topics of using programming tools for engineering applications, data analysis, data manipulation, data visualization, with introduction of another tool, Matlab, Excel VBA or similar. By the completion of the course students gain necessary skills to apply modern programming and data techniques in variety of engineering and other disciplines.