A sort of Course Syllabus for Physics 410/510:

Spring Term 2013:

• Class Meets F 1-3:30 pm in Library 41
• There is no required textbook

The Course Website is: http://homework.uoregon.edu/pub/class/sciprog15

Principles of Scientific Programming

Instructors:

• G. Bothun (hair): bigmoo@gmail.com
• C. Rasmussen (no-hair): rasmus@cas.uoregon.edu
  
  Course TAs:
• For the 410 Students: Rebecka Tumblin: rtumblin@uoregon.edu
• For the 510 Students: Erik Keever: ekeever1@uoregon.edu

Topics could include:

• Why programming matters
• How programming enables data exploration
• Data organization, data management, data forms
• Visualized output of data; using viz libraries
• Scripting: shell, python, etc
• Fortran programming (yes really)
• Parallel programming
• High performance computing.

Grading and Course Requirements:

There will be a series of excercises, some short, some more involved and there will very likely be some kind of term project.

There may or may not be a final exam. There will be NO midterm.