Classroom and Schedule

The class will be divided in lectures and labs. Usually:

Lectures are on Wednesdays from 14:15 to 16:00 in CM1103.

Labs are on Friday from 08:15 to 10:00 in CM1103.

Lectures will not be recorded.

You are expected to work about 4 more hours per week.

Important links

• GIT Repository of the class
  
• Recommended Virtual machine: SB-MATH-LINUX on https://vdi.epfl.ch (recommended to install the VMware client)
  

Teaching staff

• Teacher: Guillaume Anciaux (guillaume.anciaux@epfl.ch)
• Tutor: Gal Pascual (gal.pascual@epfl.ch)

Text Book:

• Guide To Scientific Computing in C++, Joe Pitt-Francis and Jonathan Whiteley, Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012. Also available from e-books at the EPFL library https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-73132-2.

Other resources:

• C++ and Object Oriented Numeric Computing for Scientists and Engineers, Daoqi Yang, Springer-Verlag, 2000
• Parallel scientific computing in C++ and MPI, Karniadakis, G. and Kirby, R.M.,Cambridge University Press, 2003

Lecture notes: none.

Even more readings:

• Steve McConnell, Code Complete, second edition
• Yun Calvin Lin and Lawrence Snyder, Principles of Parallel Programming
• John R. Hubbard, Anthony Q. Baxter, Schaum’s Easy Outlines: Programming with C++

Lecture organization

Typically, the lectures will be organized in four parts:

1. Teaching, based on assignment,
2. Possible quiz and correction in class (not part of evaluation)
   
3. New assignment: typically reading of new chapter of the book.
4. Time for exercise revision (if necessary)

All the lectures are based on the book

Guide To Scientific Computing in C++, Joe Pitt-Francis and Jonathan Whiteley, Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012. Also available from e-books at the EPFL library.

On-line resources

• The moodle website http://moodle.epfl.ch is the main communication line.
• http://www.cplusplus.com is an excellent on-line reference with examples.
• http://www.cppreference.com/wiki is a quite complete wiki page and updated to the last C++11 standard.

IT

Note that you are supposed to work on the linux workstations in the lab. You can of course use your own computer, but we can not give you support. Note that working with Windows or MacOSX should be fine but requires little experience with the installation of compilers.

Quiz take 20-30 minutes.

The material of the class can be pulled from:

The cloning maybe done with:

git clone https://gitlab.epfl.ch/anciaux/pcsc.git

The structure of the directories is:

root -
        | - lectures
        | - exercise_pdfs
        | - work
        | - solutions

lectures = pdfs of the lectures given in class
exercise_pdfs =  the exercises not in the book
work = where to do your things
solutions= where we put the solutions of the exercises