Introduction to Computer Science for Engineers

This page contains general information about the course "Introduction to Computer Science for Engineers", which usually takes place in the winter term.
More precise information can be found here (including registration for the elearning system).
There is also a syllabus and a (preliminary) schedule for the lecture available.
Please note, that due to the universities corona regulations you still need to register for this course via LSF - but this registration does not guarantee a place in of the exercise groups!

Summary

"Introduction to Computer Science for Engineers" (ICSE) is a 2(+1)V+2Ü+1T (~3 hours of lecture, 2 hours of exercise and 2 hours of tutorials for half a semester) course held in the winter term at the Fakultät für Informatik of the Otto von Guericke University (OvGU) Magdeburg. "ICSE" is a course designed to give international students a basic knowledge of computer science and to provide them with first experience in programming.

Intended Learning Outcomes:

Knowledge and Understanding:

Understand the principles of object-oriented programming.
Understand and recognize the fundamental data structures such as lists, stacks and queues, trees (binary trees, search-trees and AVL trees), hash tables and graphs.
Understand and recognize methods to observe algorithm complexity or performance.
Understand and recognize the basic algorithms for sorting and searching.
Comprehend the fundamental types of algorithm design paradigm such as Divide-and-Conquer, Greedy, Backtracking and Searching, and Dynamic Programming.

Intellectual and Practical Skills:

Distinguish the different types of data structures and algorithm design paradigm evaluate when an algorithmic design situation calls for it.
Select appropriate algorithms for basic tasks such as searching and sorting.
Design new algorithms or modify existing ones for new application and reason about the efficiency of the result.
Program, test and debug computer programs in Java.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills:

Presentation of work and ideas during the tutorials / exercises.
Interact with a team and tutors during the tutorials.