This unit introduces students to the process of taking an engineering or scientific problem, identifying its components, and then expressing the solution to these components in computational terms. MATLAB is used as the programming language. In the first part of the course students are taught standard programming constructs, data types, the use of operators, and control flow. The decomposition of programs into functions to aid design, modularity and code reuse is also emphasised. The second half of the course introduces the reading and writing of files, basic data structures, representation of surfaces, data visualisation, floating point arithmetic, numerical differentiation and integration, optimisation, and basic geometric algorithms.

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