The purpose of this course is to provide training in core skills in programming. The course is future-oriented. The focus is on high-level programming and construction of well-behaved programs.

The course offers some core competences in programming. The focus is on programming, less on the underlying technology. The selection of the topics covered will be based on the current trends in industrial practice. The possible topics covered include, but are not limited to:

- concurrent programming
- declarative programming
- distributed programming
- generic programming
- parallel programming
- reactive programming
- scripting
- shell programming

The actual contents of this course will vary in different instantiations based on the preferences of the course team.

After taking this course, the student should be able to

1) quickly acquaint himself or herself with new technology;

2) solve difficult programming problems;

3) write correct programs;

4) write efficient programs;

5) select a right language for different programming tasks;

One should be able to program

Permission to take graduate courses at our department

14 lectures; 4 obligatory programming exercises; oral exam

14 × 2 hours lectures; 4 obligatory programming exercises; 2-weeks group project; oral, individual project exam