Introduction to Computational Sciences Programming

Catalog description

This introductory programming course teaches the foundations of programming and computational problem solving for scientific and engineering domains. The emphasis of the course is on computation as a problem-solving tool for highly mathematical intensive applications. The course includes the study of core programming concepts, including data types, data structures, control structures, functions, and problem decomposition, and then continues with techniques applicable to modeling and visualizing scientific data. Students gain experience solving scientific and engineering problems by translating mathematical specifications into computational solutions, using a variety of mathematical and related libraries. They also gain experience developing solutions that provide visual representations of the results.