Fundamentals of Informatics


course ID

Lecturer

CFU

6

Length

14 Weeks

Semester DD

Second


Course details

Notes on the architecture of a computer, CPU, RAM memories, hard disks. Operating systems. Communications between computers and with external hardware. Scientific writing programs: brief introduction to tex. Writing a simple scientific report in Latex. The compilers. Introduction to structured programming, flow charts. Examples of easy programs in Matlab. Importance of numerical approximations introduced in the solution of easy physics problems.

Objectives

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