NMBU, INF205: Resource-efficient programming (spring 2024)

• Lecture: Monday, 14.15 - 16.00, TF1-102.
• Datalab: Wednesday, 14.15 - 16.00, TF1-105.

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

Information:

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

Recommended literature:

• B. Stroustrup, A Tour of C++, 3rd edn., Pearson Education (ISBN 978-0-13-681648-5), 2023.
• R. Grimm, C++ Core Guidelines Explained: Best Practices for Modern C++, Addison-Wesley (ISBN 978-0-136-87567-3), 2022.
• B. Stroustrup, H. Sutter (eds.), C++ Core Guidelines, 2015-2024.

Stroustrup's short "tour of C++" will be the main resource; in addition to the above, the other well-known C++ books by Stroustrup can be of interest as well.

Material:

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

Structure:

1. Introduction
   • Lecture slides (5.2.)
   • Lab worksheet 1 (deadline 13.2.)
   • Textbook: Stroustrup (2023) Sections 1.1 to 1.8 (pp. 1-18); also cf. Grimm (2022) Appendix C (pp. 457-458)
2. C/C++ programming
   • Slides from the first lecture (12.2.) and the second lecture (19.2.)
   • Lab worksheet 2 (deadline 27.2.)
   • Textbook: Stroustrup (2023) Sections 1.5 to 1.7, 1.9, 3.6, and Chapter 8
3. Data structures
   • Slides from the first lecture (26.2.), the second lecture (4.3.), and the third lecture (11.3.)
   • Lab worksheet 3 (deadline 12.3.)
   • Textbook: Stroustrup (2023) Chapters 5 and 6, Sections 7.2, 11.7, and 11.9; also cf. Grimm (2022) Chapters 5 and 13
4. Concurrency
   • Slides from the first lecture (18.3.), the second lecture (8.4.), and the third lecture (15.4.)
   • Lab worksheet 4 (deadline 2.4.)
   • Documentation: Open MPI v5.0.x, Slurm scheduler commands (qsub, qstat, etc.), ROS 2 documentation (see also: ROS 2 C++ API and guide to implementing a node)
   • Results from the mid-term evaluation of the INF205 course
5. Production
   • Slides from the first lecture (22.4.) and the second lecture (29.4.)
   • Lab worksheet 5 (deadline 23.4.)

Programming project:

Find more information here.

Important dates and deadlines:

License:

Any examples from this module are 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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