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[Aug]: The lectures will start at 10.15 instead of 9.15.

Lecturer

The lecturer in C is Marco Kupiainen, marcok@nada.kth.se. The lectures in MATLAB is held by Joakim Möller, jmoller@nada.kth.se.

Literature

The main literature consists of copied transparencies which will be handed out at the beginning of the course. All material handed out is also available for download below.

More detailed documentation can be found in the reference material.

Schedule & Course plan

Schedule
Wednesday August 18 10.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523
13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Thursday August 19 9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523
13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Friday August 20 9.15-12.00, lecture in room 1537
13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Monday August 23 9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523
13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Tuesday August 24 9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523
13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Wednesday August 25 9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523
13.00-15.00, computer exercises in &
Thursday August 26 9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523
13.00-15.00, computer exercises in &
Course plan

Date Topics covered

Wednesday August 18 Introduction to Unix & the Nada computer environment. Basic C constructs.

Thursday August 19 Functions and arrays in C. The Nada computer environment.

Friday August 20 Pointers and functions in C.

Monday August 23 Makefiles, strings and numerical libraries.

Tuesday August 24 Preprocessor directives, structures and enumerations. Other programming languages.

Wednesday August 25 Introducion to MATLAB

Thursday August 26 Introducion to MATLAB cont.

Schedule
Wednesday August 18	10.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523 13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Thursday August 19	9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523 13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Friday August 20	9.15-12.00, lecture in room 1537 13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Monday August 23	9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523 13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Tuesday August 24	9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523 13.00-16.00, computer exercises in &
Wednesday August 25	9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523 13.00-15.00, computer exercises in &
Thursday August 26	9.15-12.00, lecture in room 4523 13.00-15.00, computer exercises in &
Course plan
Date	Topics covered
Wednesday August 18	Introduction to Unix & the Nada computer environment. Basic C constructs.
Thursday August 19	Functions and arrays in C. The Nada computer environment.
Friday August 20	Pointers and functions in C.
Monday August 23	Makefiles, strings and numerical libraries.
Tuesday August 24	Preprocessor directives, structures and enumerations. Other programming languages.
Wednesday August 25	Introducion to MATLAB
Thursday August 26	Introducion to MATLAB cont.

Computer exercises

Each lecture is followed by three hours of computer exercises, where small problems related to the lecture are solved. The aim of the C exercises is to enable students to implement a short but significant numerical application by the end of the week.

Handouts

Unless otherwise specified all links below lead to handouts in PDF format.

Handouts
Wednesday August 18 Lectures 1
Lectures 2
Lectures 3
Computer exercises
Excerpts from the "Linux Users' Guide"
Getting Started With Email Using Pine
Brief description of the computer system at Nada's library

Thursday August 19 Lectures 4
Lectures 5
Lectures 6
Documentation for files plot.h and plot.c

Friday August 20 Lectures 7
Lectures 8
Lectures 9
Emacs refernce card (external link)

Monday August 23 Lectures 10
Lectures 11
Lectures 12

Tuesday August 24 Lectures 14
Lectures 15

Handouts
Wednesday August 18	Lectures 1 Lectures 2 Lectures 3 Computer exercises Excerpts from the "Linux Users' Guide" Getting Started With Email Using Pine Brief description of the computer system at Nada's library
Thursday August 19	Lectures 4 Lectures 5 Lectures 6 Documentation for files plot.h and plot.c
Friday August 20	Lectures 7 Lectures 8 Lectures 9 Emacs refernce card (external link)
Monday August 23	Lectures 10 Lectures 11 Lectures 12
Tuesday August 24	Lectures 14 Lectures 15

Reference material

There are several introductory texts on C available on the web. You can for example have a look at

C Programming (Steve Holmes)
Programming in C (Bharat Kinariwala and Tep Dobry)

More detailed information can be found in the following reference manuals stored locally at Nada.

Sun provides a large amount of online documentation, including some C-specific information.

Matlab documentation can be accessed by giving the command doc at the Matlab prompt.

Source code

makefile for linking with BLAS & LAPACK. Save the file to disk (preferably as makefile or Makefile) and do the necessary modifications as described in the file.
NB! Don't use cut-and-paste since the file may be corrupted.
plot.h and plot.c. Some C interfaces to the GNU graph application. Example programs example1.c and example2.c as described in the documentation.
cooread.h and cooread.c. Function for reading files stored in the Matrix Market format.

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