NMBU, INF205: Resource-efficient programming (spring 2025)

Calendar weeks 6 to 11: Tuesdays, 14.15-16.00 in TF1-102 (with recording); Wednesdays and Fridays, 10.15-12.00 in TF1-105 (no recording possible)

• First meeting on 4.2.2025, final meeting on 12.3.2025
• Detailed plan, including all events and deadlines within the course

Instructor: Martin Thomas Horsch (office: TF2-303A)

Information:

• INF205 page on Canvas
• NMBU course catalogue entry in English and in Norwegian

Material:

• Index of examples and information material
• Glossary document: Work toward agreed definitions of key concepts

Recommended literature:

• B. Stroustrup, A Tour of C++, 3rd edn., Pearson Education (ISBN 978-0-13-681648-5), 2023.
• B. Stroustrup, H. Sutter (eds.), C++ Core Guidelines, 2015-2025.

Structure:

1. C++ basics
   • Slides: Introduction (4.2.), pointers and procedural programming (7.2.)
   • Task: First worksheet (lab session 5.2., deadline 11.2.)
2. Memory and objects
   • Slides: Memory allocation and deallocation (11.2.), object orientation in C++ (14.2.)
   • Task: Second worksheet (lab sessions 12.2. and 19.2., deadline 21.2.)
3. Data structures and libraries
   • Slides: Templates and shared libraries (18.2.), containers (25.2.), linked data structures (26.2.)
   • Task: Third worksheet (lab sessions 28.2. and 12.3., deadline 14.3.)
4. Concurrency
   • Slides: Message passing (4.3.), resource efficiency (5.3.), ROS2 workshop (7.3.), process models (11.3.)
   • Task: Anonymous course evaluation / underveisevaluering (deadline 14.3., see results)

Important dates:

Evaluation:

• Underveisevaluering

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).

Index