Postgraduate Course: Object-Oriented Programming with Applications (MATH11152)
Course Outline
| School | School of Mathematics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course will equip the student with skills to design and implement numerical solutions to problems in operational research, financial and applied mathematics in an object-oriented language like C++ or C# in an efficient, extendable and robust manner. |
| Course description |
Object-Oriented Programming:
- compilation, Hello World, variables & simple data types,
- flow-control, functions,
- classes / objects,
- basic algorithms and data structures
Applications:
- applied mathematics
- financial mathematics
- operational research
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | At least one semester of an undergraduate course dedicated to programming (in any language). Understanding of flow control, methods/functions and some basics of data structures. This requirement is for both UG students and PGT students from MSc programmes. |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate appropriate use of flow-control, functions and data-types in the context of a specific object-oriented programming language (e.g. C++ or C#).
- Understand basic concepts of object oriented programming: classes / objects, inheritance, interfaces.
- Implement some numerical methods in an area of applied mathematics, financial mathematics or operational research in a high level programming language.
- Use good programming style and writing of code that is reliable, extendible and reusable, by constructing relevant algorithms in reports and/or exams.
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Reading List
- Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Addison Wesley 2011.
- Peter Wright, Beginning Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. Apress 2008.
- Stanley Lippman, Josée Lajoie, Barbara Moo, C++ Primer. Addison-Wesley 2013. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | OPA |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Skarleth Carrales Escobedo
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Course secretary | Miss Gemma Aitchison
Tel: (0131 6)50 9268
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