Advanced Programming: course material
This repository contains material for the Advanced Programming course. Academic Year 2025-2026.
This course is offered jointly by SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies) and UniTS (Università degli Studi di Trieste), Trieste, Italy.
License
Unless otherwise specified, all content here is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
⚠️ Exam rules
⚠️ Detailed exam rules are available here.
📆 Exam dates
⚠️ TBD.
ℹ️ Students from UniTS: please register on Esse3.
ℹ️ Students from SISSA: please register by sending me an email.
Documents
Links and resources
- Google Classroom. You are required to join. Please use your full name (no nicknames allowed).
- Live streaming (Zoom) (meeting ID: 884 4196 9598, passcode: 301029).
- Recordings (Moodle) (access key: AdvProg2526).
Homeworks
- Homework 01 [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] [Google Classroom]. Due date: 09 November 2025.
Timetable
| Date | Time | Room | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 30 Sep 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 128-129 | Introduction to the course. The UNIX shell. The build process. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Wed 01 Oct 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 005 | Exercise session. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Tue 07 Oct 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 005 | Introduction to C++. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Wed 08 Oct 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 005 | Exercise session. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Tue 14 Oct 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 005 | Object oriented programming. Classes and access control in C++. Operators. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Wed 15 Oct 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 005 | Exercise session. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Tue 21 Oct 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 005 | Inheritance and polymorphism. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Wed 22 Oct 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 005 | Exercise session. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Tue 28 Oct 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 005 | Functions. Templates and generic programming. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Wed 29 Oct 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 005 | Exercise session. [Markdown] [HTML] [PDF] |
| Tue 04 Nov 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 005 | The Standard Template Library. |
| Wed 05 Nov 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 005 | Smart pointers, move semantics, STL utilities. |
| Tue 11 Nov 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 005 | Exercise session. |
| Wed 12 Nov 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 005 | Libraries: principles, building, and use. |
| Tue 18 Nov 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 005 | Exercise session: Introduction to GNU Make. |
| Wed 19 Nov 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 005 | Exercise session: Introduction to CMake. |
| Tue 25 Nov 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 128-129 | Optimization, debugging, profiling, testing. Exercise session. |
| Wed 26 Nov 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 128-129 | Introduction to Python. |
| Tue 02 Dec 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 133 | Object-oriented programming. Classes, inheritance and polymorphism. Modules and packages. |
| Wed 03 Dec 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 004 | Exercise session. |
| Tue 09 Dec 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 005 | Integrating C++ and Python codes. |
| Wed 10 Dec 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 005 | Exercise session. |
| Tue 16 Dec 2025 | 14:00 - 16:00 | 133 | Python for scientific computing. |
| Wed 17 Dec 2025 | 11:00 - 13:00 | 004 | Exercise session. |