INFO2050 - Advanced computer programming

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The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly

Donald Knuth

Informations

Schedule

Assignment (optional) 18 Sep. 2020

Assignment 0
Ex. 25 Sep. 2020

Exercise session 1: Pseudo-code and complexity

Deadline 01 Oct. 2020 Don't forget to submit the optional assignment on the submission platform
Assignment Discussion Ex. 02 Oct. 2020

First assignment

Discussion regarding the optional assignment

Exercise session 1: Pseudo-code and complexity (second part)

Supplementary material

Visual Algo is a site which illustrates many algorithms and data structures of the course. In addition, in the training section, you can to create online quizz on those topics to test your knowledge.

Assignments

Testing machines

The assignments must compile on the ms8xx (xx=01..25) machines !

Firstly, you need to create an account through the registration page.

Then you can connect to the machines thanks to SSH with the following command:

  • ssh login@ms8xx.montefiore.ulg.ac.be
where you need to replace login by your actual login and xx by a machine number (xx=01..25). SSH will open a terminal on the remote machine. For windows user, the PuTTY utility will mimic SSH behaviour.

Several solutions are available to ship source code to and from the ms8xx machines.

  • FileZilla: a graphic, cross-platform FTP client
  • scp: a command line utility to transfert file from/to remote hosts (it works much like the cp command)
  • rsync: a command line utility to synchronize remote files
  • sshfs: a command line utility to "mount" a remote directory
Those utilities might need some configuration/getting-used-to. A few hints to help you out:
  • Read the man page (so you can say you have)
  • Try the help flags -h, --help (you might even get useful information)
  • Google your questions or get a succinct tutorial (others have stumbled on the same difficulties, let them help you)
  • Script the data transferts, compilation steps, testing suite (human memory is the most expensive)

Oh, and be sure to chmod your home folder to prevent others from messing with your files.

Misc.

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