Weekly outline

  • Informations générales

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    Ce cours s’adresse aux étudiant.e.s en génie civil et science et génie des matériaux de première année à l’EPFL. Le premier cours aura lieu le vendredi 12 septembre 2025 à 9h15, en salle CE 1 2

    Enseignant·e·s: Mirjana Stojilović (partie programmation) et Olivier Lévêque (partie théorique)

    Assistant·e·s:
    • Partie programmation:
       Emilien Silly (Assistant principal), Ayman Bakiri, Malak Boulahfa, Elie Bruno, Adam Chahed Ouazzani, Manon Cesbron Darnaud, Iskandar Ghobril, Victor Monfredo, Cleopatra Moroianu, Lina Sagdal
    • Partie théorique:
      AAC 1 32: Floriane Baron, Elie Bruno, Thomas Christiansson
      AAC 1 37: Manon Cesbron Darnaud, Martina Gatti, Justin Labaeye, Thomas Fassnacht (gymnase de Renens)
      AAC 2 31: Adrien Lièvre, Victor Monfredo, Cleopatra Moroianu, Chaimâa Ouchicha

    Horaires:
    • Partie programmation:
      • cours les vendredis de 9h15 à 10h00:
      •    en salle CE 1 2. Enregistrements (année 2024-25): Mediaspace
      • séance d'exercices les vendredis de 10h15 à 12h00:
      •    en salles BC07-08 et INF 2
    • Partie théorique:
                cours les vendredis de 13h15 à 15h00:
    Ressources pour le cours (partie théorique):

    Calcul de votre note finale:
    • midterm du 7 (?) novembre: 40% (info détaillées: voir plus bas en semaine 8)
    • projet de programmation: 15%
    • examen final du 19 décembre: 40% (info détaillées: voir plus bas en semaine 14)
    • quiz sur la sécurité informatique (à faire sur Moodle d'ici le 31 octobre 2025):  5%

  • Semaine 1 (vendredi 12 septembre)

  • Semaine 2 (vendredi 19 septembre)

    • Partie théorique: 

      • Algorithmes et sous-algorithmes
      • Complexité temporelle d'un algorithme

    • File icon
      ICC-T Cours 2 File
    • File icon
      ICC-T Algorithmes et complexité temporelle File
    • Folder icon
      ICC-T Codes liés au cours 2 Folder
    • File icon
      ICC-T Série 2 File
    • File icon
      ICC-T Solutions 2 File
      Available from 20 September 2025, 8:00 PM

    • Software engineeringProgramming: 

      • Variables and types
      • Numbers, Booleans
      • Operators and their precedence

    • File icon
      ICC-P-Lecture02-NumbersBooleans File
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      ICC-P-Exercise-NumbersOperatorsBooleans File

      Try solving the exercises in the Python interpreter without using if-elif-else constructs (for those who know how to use them in Python). You can also write all commands in one .py file (a Python script) and run it if that suits you better. We will share the solution in one file so you can easily change and rerun it.

      To run, press the "play" button on the top right corner of your Visual Studio Code editor. Do not forget to activate the environment that you installed last week! :-)

      Next week, we will study if-elif-else constructs, the preferred way to solve some of the problems in this exercise set.

    • File icon
      ICC-P-Exercise-NumbersOperatorsBooleans (Solution) File
      application/x-python-code
      Available from 19 September 2025, 2:00 PM

  • Semaine 3 (vendredi 26 septembre)

  • Semaine 4 (vendredi 3 octobre)

  • Semaine 5 (vendredi 10 octobre)

  • Semaine 6 (vendredi 17 octobre)

  • Semaine 7 (vendredi 31 octobre)

  • Semaine 8 (vendredi 7 novembre)

    Midterm (vendredi OU samedi matin, 9:15-12:15), en salles à déterminer encore.

    Formulaire autorisé: une page A4 recto-verso manuscrite, préparée avec ipad + stylet ou même dactylographiée
    (un seul conseil à ce sujet: préparez le formulaire vous-même: vous réviserez ainsi le cours et les exercices!)

    Aucun appareil électronique n'est autorisé pour cet examenrien d'électronique, sauf une calculatrice simple (du type TI-30 eco RS, ou même plus simple: il n'y a bien sûr pas besoin que ce soit précisément ce modèle!); vous êtes également bienvenu·e·s d'amener vos feuilles de brouillon.

    Cet examen compte pour 40% de la note, avec 25 points pour la théorie et 15 points pour la programmation.

    Le cours et les exercices de théorie ont lieu comme d'habitude le vendredi après-midi.

  • Semaine 9 (vendredi 14 novembre)

  • Semaine 10 (vendredi 21 novembre)

    • Partie théorique: 

      • Compression sans pertes et entropie

    • File icon
      ICC-T Cours 10 File
    • File icon
      ICC-T Série 10 File
    • File icon
      ICC-T Solutions 10 File
      Available from 22 November 2025, 8:00 PM

    • Software developmentProgramming:

      • Tuples and sets
      • 3...2...1...Mini-project starts!

    • File icon
      ICC-P-Lecture10-TuplesSets File
    • File icon
      ICC-P-Lecture-Tuples File
      application/x-python-code
    • File icon
      ICC-P-Lecture-Sets File
      application/x-python-code
    • File icon
      ICC-P-Exercise-TuplesSets File
    • Folder icon
      ICC-P-Solution-TuplesSets Folder
      Available from 21 November 2025, 2:00 PM

    • Software development

      Graded Project

      Online information session:



    • Mini Programming Project: Falling Ring
      Please read carefully the instructions below for the graded project that comprises 14.25% of the total grade:
      1. Before submitting your code for grading, ensure that (ideally all) local tests we provided pass successfully. The submission portal will be opened in a few days. We will notify you once it is up and running.
      2. We advise using the virtual machine (VDI) for coding and testing. We will not provide support for other operating systems (e.g., Mac) and programming environments.
      3. Make sure the file you submit for grading has the name falling_ring.py. Submitting a wrong (or wrongly named) file will result in losing all points in that grading attempt.
      4. After you upload the code for grading and hit the submit button, the grader will generate your total score and a file, report.txt, briefly describing the tests applied to your code and the results of those tests (success or failure).
      5. The maximum number of grading attempts per group is 10. The final score will be the score of your last submission. Therefore, once you receive a 100% score, there is no need to continue submitting, and please do stop submitting to help reduce the workload on the server, which ~150 students will use!
      6. Each submission from a member of a group will count towards the 10-submission limit. Therefore, be careful not to submit the wrong file or an empty file, or the same file multiple times. The submission cannot be reverted.
      7. The submission page on Moodle will remain open until Friday, 6th of December, 23:59.
      8. Please note that every submitted code enters a waiting list. Hence, if there are many submissions at once, the waiting list will become long, and grading will take longer than it normally would (many minutes may pass before your turn for grading). Because of the above, we advise that you
        (a) do not wait until the last minute to submit your code for grading
        (b) if you see that the grading is taking longer than usual, do not resubmit again (resubmitting will only make the waiting list even longer for everyone accessing the server, and it will also waste your budget of 10 grading attempts).
      9. Do not worry as long as you submit your code before the deadline, it will get graded (the delay will depend on the length of the waiting list), and even if the server completes the grading after the deadline, we will accept the obtained score.
      10. Consultation and discussion with your peers are allowed. However, it is strictly forbidden to submit someone else's code for any reason or copy any snippet of the code from others! If plagiarism is detected, we will treat it as an attempt to cheat, resulting in a score of zero.
      11. Sharing any snippet of your code publicly on the forum is prohibited. In such a case, we will immediately revert the post to private, and the person who submitted it will lose one submission attempt.
      12. It is strictly forbidden to run system commands on the grading server (for example, running commands or downloading anything from the web) or do any potentially harmful activity. If you submit anything else than the file we ask you to, we will revoke the permission of the group to make any submission and give them a zero score.
      13. It is also forbidden to use AI tools such as ChatGPT for generating code. AI-generated code will result in a score of zero.
      14. For issues with accessing or working with Moodle autograder, please feel free to post on the Ed forum or contact Shashwat Shrivastava.
      15. We will make the submission portal available for you on Monday, Nov. 25th. 
      Good luck, and have fun with the project!

    • File icon
      ICC-P-Project-FallingRing-French File
      Uploaded 27/11/24, 13:33
      In the new uploaded version, a typo is fixed in the document; color[0] and color[-1] are changed to colors[0] and colors[-1] on page 5.

    • File icon
      ICC-P-Project-FallingRing-English File
      Uploaded 27/11/24, 13:34

      In the new uploaded version, a typo is fixed in the document; color[0] and color[-1] are changed to colors[0] and colors[-1] on page 5. 

    • Folder icon
      ICC-P-Project-FallingRing-SupplementaryFiles Folder
    • Assignment icon
      ICC-P-Project-FallingRing-SubmissionPortal Assignment

  • Semaine 11 (vendredi 28 novembre)

  • Semaine 12 (vendredi 5 décembre)

  • Semaine 13 (vendredi 12 décembre)

    • Partie théorique: 

      • Cryptographie (clé privée / clé publique) et sécurité

    • File icon
      ICC-T Cours 13 File
    • File icon
      ICC-T Série 13 File
    • File icon
      ICC-T Solutions 13 File
      Available from 12 December 2025, 8:00 PM

    • Software development[Needs update] Programming:

      • Quick intro to Numpy, Matplotlib, and Jupyter Notebook
      • Example of a past ICC exam (programming part)

    • File icon
      ICC-P-Exercise-Bin2Int File
    • Folder icon
      ICC-P-Solution-Bin2Int Folder
      Available from 12 December 2025, 2:00 PM
    • File icon
      ICC-P-ExamQuestions-Sets File

      These exercises are examples of past exam questions.

    • File icon
      ICC-P-ExamQuestions-Sets File
      application/x-python-code

      To compute the expected answers, run this Python script.

      Available from 12 December 2025, 2:00 PM
    • File icon
      ICC-P-ExamQuestions-Dictionaries File

      These exercises are examples of past exam questions.

    • File icon
      ICC-P-ExamQuestions-Dictionaries File
      application/x-python-code

      To compute the expected answers, run this Python script.

      Available from 12 December 2025, 2:00 PM

  • Semaine 14 (vendredi 19 décembre)

    Examen final le vendredi matin de 9h15 à 12h15 en salles à déterminer encore.

    Formulaire autorisé: deux pages A4 recto-verso manuscrites, préparées avec ipad + stylet ou même dactylographiées
    (un seul conseil à ce sujet: préparez le formulaire vous-même: vous réviserez ainsi le cours et les exercices!)

    Aucun appareil électronique n'est autorisé pour cet examen, rien d'électronique sauf une calculatrice simple (du type TI-30 eco RS, ou même plus simple: il n'y a bien sûr pas besoin que ce soit précisément ce modèle!); vous êtes également bienvenu·e·s d'amener vos feuilles de brouillon.

    Cet examen compte pour 40% de la note, avec 20 points pour la théorie et 20 points pour la programmation.

    Et il n'y a pas de cours l'après-midi, bien sûr :-)