A sort of Course Syllabus for Physics 410/510:

Spring Term 2013:

• Class Meets F 1-3:30 pm in either Willamette 318 or Library 42
• There is no required textbook

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

Principles of Scientific Programming

Instructors:

• G. Bothun (hair): bigmoo@gmail.com
• C. Rasmussen (no-hair): rasmus@cas.uoregon.edu
  
  
  Topics could include:
  • Why programming matters
  • How programming creates efficincies
  • Data organization, data management, data forms
  • Visualized output of data; using viz libraries
  • Scripting: shell, python, etc
  • Fortran programming (yes really)
  • 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.