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A Wrap Up March 21, 2011

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Outline

Important concepts of C/C++ &

missing topics.
Further literature & lectures.

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Missing C++

Static variables (class variables; see

slides of session 10)

Standard library (STL)

Containers Iterators Math library

Exceptions & error handling Outlook to C++Ox

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Important Concepts (1/2)

von-Neumann architecture, and, in particular, the linearised memory. Denition of an algorithm. Interplay of compiler, linker, interpreted programs, and machine language. Idea of a variable and its instantiation. Overview of built-in data typesplease note the default-value paradigm in context

with default constructors.

Terms syntax and semantic. Comments. Assignment statements (equal sign) in combination with case distinction. An idea of the rounding error (normalisation process). Strict vs. non-strict boolean logic. Different variants of branches and loops.

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Important Concepts (2/2)

Scopes. Notion of a function and the three call paradigms. Keyword const in different context. Recursion and its different types. Enums. Split-up of an application into header and implementation les. Pointers, arrays, and strings. Concept of 0-terminated strings. Structures (n-tupels). Dynamic memory management. Encapsulation. Methods instead of functions on structs. Constructor and destructor concept. Inheritance.
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The three pillars of science

Theory

Simulation Experiment

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The didactic concept revisited

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Yogi Berra

We didnt practiceno even in the tutorialsbut just started to train the very basics. So far, theres no arts involved.
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Further literature & topics

Martin Fowler: Refactoring Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides. Design Patterns:

Elements of Reusable Software

Randall Hyde: Write Great Code I: Understanding the machine Randall Hyde: Write Great Code II: Thinking Low-level, Writing High-level Scott Meyers. Effective C++ Scott Meyers. More Effective C++

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The Scientic Workow

Numerical Experiments Postprocessing Visualisation

Modelling

Numerical Treatment

Design of Software

Implementation Tests

In math, theres tons of lectures on pre-coding topics. In computer science and, in particular, in the application areas, theres tons of lectures on the post-coding and modelling topics.
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Coding & scientic computing continued

Parallel Numerics
Winter term. Prof. Dr. Thomas Huckle Study (mainly) linear algebra with

respect to parallelisation
Use MPI with C programming

language

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Coding & scientic computing continued

Algorithmen des wissenschaftlichen Rechnens Algorithms of Scientic Computing
Summer and winter term. Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Bungartz et. al. FFT, SFCs, and hierarchical models (part I) Sparse grids, molecular dynamics, AMG (part II)

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Coding & scientic computing continued

CDF Lab
Summer term. Philipp Neumann et. al. Program a CFD solver (almost from

skratch)
following the book from Griebel et. al. in four sessions.

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Projects, Hiwis, etc.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Yogi Berra

Use the time you have at the university to train and play around ... (youll sit in a company later way too long anyway)
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FRAVE

Showcase room of computer science department. Several codes (most of them in C/C++). Nice starting point to get an impression about what is going on in Scientic

Computing.

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Peano

Big C++ project kicked-off at the chair. Open source, and available at www5.in.tum.de/peano. Feel free to download it and study a

real-world PDE piece of software.

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Good luck ...

... and see you all at the exam!

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