C for science

The course is an intensive course suitable for scientists without previous experience in programming with C. It provides a good basis for programming fast scientific simulations or calculations.

The course covers:

• Different number types in C (Integers and Floating Point).
• Operators, operands and their precedence.
• Conversions and casts.
• Mathematical expressions.
• Statements: choice, while, do-while, switch, for loops...
• Functions.
• Pointers, arrays and matrices.
• Characters, strings and interacting with the console.
• Reading and writing files.
• Optimisation and Debugging.
• Scientific C-Libraries and their uses: NAG, GSL, etc.
• An Introduction to Parallel Computing.
• C++ and other languages.

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