COMPUTER SCIENCE 1

Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year

Teaching Staff: Giovanni Maria FARINELLA
Credit Value: 6
Taught classes: 35 hours
Term / Semester: 2°

Learning Objectives

The course aims to provide the basic knowledge of Computer Science and programming skills which can be useful in the field of mathematical sciences.

Detailed Course Content

Architettura del Computer e Rappresentazione delle Informazioni

Computer Architecture
Operating System
Data Representation

Introduzione alla Programmazione

Algorithms and Flowcharts
Control Structures
Languages and compilers
Basic Data Structures
Recursion
Trees and Tree Algorithms
Sorting and Searching
Programming using Python

Textbook Information

1) Libro di riferimento: Brookshear J. Glenn, Informatica – Una panoramica generale, Pearson- Education Italia, 2012

2) Libro di riferimento: Brad Miller, David Ranum, Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures, The Runestone Interactive Library, 2013

3) Introduzione a Python, Tony Gaddis, Pearson- Education Italia, 2016