Duration
12h Th, 18h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in biology | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course is a short introduction to computer science aimed at students in life. The history of computer technology and the basic working principle of a computer are presented. Some basic concepts of programming are introduced using the programming language C/C++.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Topics of the theoretical course:
- Information in terms of bits and bytes.
- The working principle of a computer.
- The elements of programming in C/C++:
basic data types, elementary operations, algorithmic tools, function.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Practical exercises on the computer will take place in parallel to the course. The schedule is available on the web pages of the U.Lg.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face to face
Recommended or required readings
The slides of the course as well as some supplementary material are available on the website of the course. In particular, one can find there - the lecture notes "Introduction à l'Informatique" by Prof. H.-P. Garnir - the lecture notes "Le Langage C/C++" by Prof. T. Bastin
Assessment methods and criteria
The examination takes place within one single session of 4 hours. It consists in writing a few computer programs (practical part, 75%) and answering a few theoretical questions (theoretical part, 25%).
A homework might impact the final cotation (-1,0,+1 on 20).
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
This course is normally given in the spring term of the second year. It comprises 6 sessions of 2 hours each. The practical exercices are done in the lab room of the building B22 (Labo B, floor -1). The schedule of the course and of the practical sessions are available on the ULg web pages.
Contacts
Prof. Alejandro V. Silhanek
Département de Physique
Allée du 6 Août, 17
Bât.B5a Local 0/51
parking 44 B-4000 LIEGE (Sart-Tilman) Tel: 32-4-3663632
Fax: 32-4-3663629 E-mail : asilhanek@ulg.ac.be
and
Prof. Patrick Meyer
Life Sciences Department
Bldg B22, room 3/03
Sart-Tilman Campus
Chemin de la Vallée, 4
4000 Liège - Belgium
Tél: 04/366 3030
email: patrick.meyer@ulg.ac.be(Patrick.Meyer@ulg.ac.be
)
Teaching Assistants:
Xavier Baumans ( xavier.baumans@ulg.ac.be )
et Damien Sirjacobs ( d.sirjacobs@ulg.ac.be )
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Introductive videos for the exercises to perform each week explaining the course are available on the usual course webpage. The exercises can be submitted each week via the script submit.sh available on our usual RStudio server.
Assessment subjects
All the series of exercises available on our webpage as well as the theorethical material given ex-cathedra constitute the material for the exam.
Assessment methods
The exam consists in a serie of exercises and will happen on our RStudio server. The exam start at the given time in the official schedule and from then will last only two hours (you can submit your answers as much as you want during those two hours). However every submission after the given time will not be considered. The time will be too short to solve perfectly all of the exercises given. For that reason the cotation will not depend on the number of available exercises but rather on the number of exercises that everyone manage to solve. Some exercises will weigh more (because those takes longer to solve) as a result, their weigh will be clearly stated in the exercise.
The professor can, if he feels so, interrogate (via teleconference) any student on his/her particular exam's answers. This oral is meant to either validate the exam or to cancel it but not to re-evaluate the student. It is likely that the top three students will be selected for an oral evaluation.
Contacts
cf previous contact section
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Idem first session
Assessment methods
Similarly to the first session, questions will be delivered via ecampus in random order. Code will have to be made on our RStudio server. Answers will be submitted both on ecampus (via upload) and on our server (via a submit.sh-like script).
Time will be limited, the exam last two hours.
Contacts
Prof. Alejandro V. Silhanek
Département de Physique
Allée du 6 Août, 17
Bât.B5a Local 0/51
parking 44 B-4000 LIEGE (Sart-Tilman) Tel: 32-4-3663632
Fax: 32-4-3663629 E-mail : asilhanek@ulg.ac.be
et
Prof. Patrick Meyer
Département des Sciences de la Vie
Bât. B22, local 3/03
Campus du Sart-Tilman
Chemin de la Vallée, 4
4000 Liège - Belgique
Tél: 04/366 3030
email: patrick.meyer@ulg.ac.be
Assistants:
Thomas Ratz ( thomas.ratz@uliege.be )
et Damien Sirjacobs ( d.sirjacobs@ulg.ac.be )