Scientific & Engineering Programming – 2025/26
	Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems Electronics and Computer Engineering

Lecture topics and notes

The following table contains the titles of all the lectures, and links to the lecture notes. Lecture notes are provided for the convenience of the students, so it is not necessary to take notes in class. Please note that they are no substitute for textbooks, and other study materials. The lecture notes and additional files are provided in different formats: PDF files, Matlab Code files, and Mathematica notebooks.

• The files with .pdf extension are in the standard Portable Document Format, and can be opened with any pdf reader (Adobe Acrobat Reader, Foxit Reader, Evince, xpdf).
• Files with .nb extension are Wolfram Mathematica notebooks, and can be opened with Mathematica program – they can be viewed, recomputed, modified. The files with .cdf extension are in Computable Document Format, and can be opened with Wolfram Player – they can be viewed and played only (these files copy the Mathematica notebook files contents, and are provided for persons, who have no Mathematica access).
• Files with .m extension are Matlab Code files, and can be opened with Matlab or any text editor (Emacs, Vim, Sublime). The files with .mlx, .mdl, and .slx extension are Matlab Live Code / Simulink files, and can be opened with Matlab only.

These notes are under copyright. They can be used only for anybody's private purposes, and cannot be distributed or published, for example by copying and making available from other Web pages, or in any other way.

no	lecture	materials
1	Course introduction. Tools. Mathematica basics
2	Mathematica basics – cont.
3,4	Differential equations with Mathematica
5,6	Inputs and outputs in Mathematica
7	Diversitas Mathematica
8	Introduction to Matlab

Laboratory classes

no	subject	description	materials
1	Introduction to the laboratory environment. Mathematica basics
2	Mathematica basics 2
3	Algebraic equations nad functions in Mathematica
4,5	Ordinary differential equations in Mathematica
6	Dynamical systems in Mathematica		Double pendulum
7	Control systems in Mathematica		Controls
7	Mathematica repetere
8	First steps in Matlab

Mathematica licence usage

Tutorials, books

•   Mathematica & Wolfram Language Fast Introduction for Math Students Tutorial
•   The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers Tutorial
•   CalcLabs with Mathematica – Mathematica Basics by Selwyn Hollis, Brooks/Cole, 2010
•   An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language by Stephen Wolfram
•   Mathematica Cookbook by Sal Mangano, O'Reilly Media, 2010

Wolfram Tools

•   Wolfram Cloud
•   Wolfram Mathematica
•   Wolfram System Modeler
•   Wolfram Demonstrations Project
•   WolframAlpha

MathWorks Tools

•   MathWorks
•   MATLAB Online

Final grades

Passing and obtaining credit in this course requires successfully completing the laboratory class for the course, and obtaining a passing grade for the lecture. The final course grade is computed from the laboratory class score (weight 0.6) and the lecture score (weight 0.4) rounded to the closest nominal grade.

To get the lecture grade one has to pass a final test at the end of the semester. The final test will take place on January 26th, 2026 at 17:05 in room 105 C-5 (regular lecture term and place).

To pass the laboratory classes the accomplishing of all the exercises is required. The final laboratory class grade results from exercise point credits.

Instructors