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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

310984 (v.2) Scientific Computing 101

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Computing
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Introduction to scientific computing. Writing computer programs; representing numbers in a computer: scalar data types; variables and constants: guidelines for variable names. Assignment statements: mathematical and logical operators; keyboard input and screen output; writing a simple, linear program. Conditional statements; arrays and subscripts; loops. File I/O; plotting; functions and subroutines. Program design; writing well structured programs; debugging techniques. Scientific applications of computer programs; solving nonlinear equations; numerical integration; data analysis, plotting and smoothing; simulating simple physical, chemical and/or mathematical systems.
Field of Education: 019900 Other Natural and Physical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External