310984 (v.1) Scientific Computing 101

Area:	Department of Computing
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
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.
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.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	019900 Other Natural and Physical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	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