ALGORITHMIZATION AND PROGRAMMING
winter semester 2018/2019
Lectures: Tuesday 9:00 (room KN:A-309), weeks 1 - 7 (from 2.10. to 13.11.2018)
Tutorials: Friday 9:00 (room KN:A-447), weeks 1 - 14
Preliminary Course Schedule - Lectures
Week 1 - Introduction- basic information about the course
- algorithms:
- examples
- what they are
- how to write them down
- programming languages
- introduction to Matlab:
- desktop, command window
- relational and logical operators, functions
- scripts (m-files), short list of commands
-
conditional statements - command
if(conditional control) - loop control:
- predefined number of repetitions - command
for - number of repetitions not known in advance - command
while
- examples from the 1-st lecture
Week 2 - Practicing in Matlab
- recapitulation, example
-
branching to more branches - command
switch - vectors and
matrices in Matlab
- numerical algorithms:
- examples from the 2-nd lecture
Week 3 - Functions in Matlab
-
functions:
- properties
- how to create your own function
- numerical algorithms:
- examples from the 3-rd lecture
Week 4 - Introduction to language C
-
computer data representation,
floating-point format
- data types in C
- a list of operators, built-in functions
-
examples of commands (conditional statements, loops)
-
on-line C compiler
- examples from the 4-th lecture
Week 5 - Arrays, files in C
- recapitulation: some of the earlier algorithms rewritten from Matlab to C
- arrays in C
-
file input and output, examples
- examples from the 5-th lecture
Week 6 - 7 - Functions in C
- functions in C
- functions and scope of variables
- passing variables by value or by reference
-
pointers in C (optional)
References
- Matlab Tutorial for Engineering
- Matlab Tutorial - TutorialsPoint
- Matlab Tutorial - Clarkson University
- Matlab Tutorial - University of Utah
- Matlab Tutorial - Mathworks
- C Programming Tutorial
- A short C Tutorial
- CodingUnit C Tutorials
- Ted Jensen: Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C
- Eric Huss: The C Library Reference Guide
SW
Dev-C++ - IDE for the C for Windows
Matlab
- student version can be installed from
download.cvut.cz
(it can be used from the CTU network only)
GNU OCTAVE - free, similar to Matlab