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<title>Chapter 1. Introduction</title>
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<div class="chapter" id="ch1Introduction">
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<p><b>Table of Contents</b></p>
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<dl><dt><span class="article"><a href="#id2693294">Introduction to the Course</a></span></dt></dl>
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<div class="article" title="Introduction to the Course">
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<a name="id2693294"></a>Introduction to the Course</h2></div></div>
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<p id="ch1Introduction_1">Engineering students use computers for a large number of curricular
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tasks – mostly computation centred. However, they do not see this as coding or programming tasks and usually are not even aware of the tools and
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techniques that will help them to handle these tasks better. This results
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in less than optimal use of their time and resources. This also causes
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difficulties when it comes tocollaboration and building on other people’s
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work. This course is intended to train such students in good software
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practices and tools for producing code and documentation.</p>
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<p id="ch1Introduction_2">fter successfully completing the program, the participants will be able to:</p>
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<span style="color: black"><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_3"></a>understand how software tools work together and how they can be used in tandem to carry out tasks,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_4"></a>use unix command line tools to carry out common (mostly text processing tasks,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_5"></a>to generate professional documents,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_6"></a>use version control effectively – for both code and documents,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_7"></a>automate tasks by writing shell scripts and python scripts,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_8"></a>realise the impact of coding style and readbility on quality,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_9"></a>write mid-sized programs that carry out typical engineering / numerical computations such as those that involve (basic) manipulation of large arrays in an efficient manner,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_a"></a>generate 2D and simple 3D plots,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_b"></a>debug programs using a standardised approach,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_c"></a>understand the importance of tests and the philosophy of Test Driven Development,</p></span><span style="color: black"><p id="ch1Introduction_d"></a>write unit tests and improve the quality of code.</p></span></span>
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