NMBU, INF203: Advanced programming project (June 2025)

Instructor: Martin Thomas Horsch (office: TF2-303A)
Teaching assistants: Amine Ben Seghier and Sudeepika Liyanapathiranage Samarathunga

Information:

Course schedule
INF203 page on NMBU's Canvas system
NMBU course catalogue entry in English and in Norwegian

Material:

Index of examples and information material

Structure:

Introduction
- Slides: Introducing the problem (3.6.), agile requirements analysis (4.6.)
- Task: First worksheet (deadline 5.6. 17:30, presentations 10.6. 13:15)
- Literature:
  - K. Beck et al., "Agile manifesto," technical brief, 2001
  - M. Cohn, User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Boston: Addison-Wesley (ISBN 978-0-321-20568-1), 2004
  - G. J. Gloor et al., "Test-area simulation method for the direct determination of the interfacial tension of systems with continuous or discontinuous potentials," J. Chem. Phys. 123: 134703, doi:10.1063/1.2038827, 2005
  - M. T. Horsch, "Open questions on defining and computing the vapour-liquid surface tension by virial and test transformation approaches," technical report, arXiv:2501.12755 [cond-mat.soft], 2025
  - J. S. Sampayo et al., "Evidence for the role of fluctuations in the thermodynamics of nanoscale drops and the implications in computations of the surface tension," J. Chem. Phys. 132: 141101, doi:10.1063/1.3376612, 2010
Object orientation in practice
- Slides: OOP techniques in Python (6.6.), input/output of structured data (10.6.)
- Task: Second worksheet (deadline 11.6. 17:30, presentations 16.6. 10:15)
- Literature:
  - A. Isaac, E. Summers, "SKOS simple knowledge organization system primer," working group note, W3C, 2009
  - A. Silberschatz et al., Database System Concepts, 7. edn. (internat.), New York: McGraw-Hill Education (ISBN 978-1-260-08450-4), 2020; therein, Chapter 6
Debugging and validation
- Slides: Unit tests (12.6.), holistic validation (13.6.)
- Task: Third worksheet (deadline 16.6. 17:30, presentations 18.6. 13:15)
- Literature:
  - H. Flyvbjerg, H. G. Petersen, "Error estimates on averages of correlated data," J. Chem. Phys. 91(1): 461-466, doi:10.1063/1.457480, 1989.
  - M. T. Horsch et al., "Epistemic metadata in molecular modelling: Second-stage case-study," technical report, doi:10.5281/zenodo.7608074, 2023
  - C. Imbert, V. Ardourel, "Formal verification, scientific code, and the epistemological heterogeneity of computational science," Philos. Sci. 90(2): 376-394, doi:10.1017/psa.2022.78, 2023
  - J. Lenhard, "Holism, or the erosion of modularity: A methodological challenge for validation," Philos. Sci. 85(5): 832-844, doi:10.1086/699675, 2018
  - H. E. Plesser, "Reproducibility vs. replicability: A brief history of a confused terminology," Front. Neuroinform. 11: 76, doi:10.3389/fninf.2017.00076, 2018
Development for production
- Task: Fourth worksheet (deadline 21.6. 17:30)

Important dates:

First meeting:	2nd June 2025, 10:15 - 11:00, T330 (Tårnbygget)
First worksheet deadline:	5th June 2025, 17:30, Canvas
Second worksheet deadline:	11th June 2025, 17:30, Canvas
Third worksheet deadline:	16th June 2025, 17:30, Canvas
Final submission deadline:	21st June 2025, 17:30, Canvas

License:

The material from this course is released by NMBU REALTEK's Institutt for datavitskap under the conditions of the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 License (attribution, non-commercial, share-alike).

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