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Introduction to the Course
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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.
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After successfully completing the program, the participants will be able to:
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- understand how software tools work together and how they can be used in tandem to carry out tasks,        
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- use unix command line tools to carry out common (mostly text processing tasks,
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- to generate professional documents,                                
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- use version control effectively – for both code and documents,       
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- automate tasks by writing shell scripts and python scripts,        
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- realise the impact of coding style and readbility on quality,      
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- 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,                                      
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- generate 2D and simple 3D plots,                                   
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- debug programs using a standardised approach,
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- understand the importance of tests and the philosophy of Test Driven Development,
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- write unit tests and improve the quality of code.
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