Summer School on Computational Materials Science
2001
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

Object-Oriented Programming in Simulations
Jeongnim Kim - jnkim@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu - Ohio State University, Physics Department

Outline of Lecture

  1. Introduction:
    1. motivation for modular programming
    2. basics of Object-oriented programming
    3. requirements: Hamiltonian, spatial layout, algorithms
    4. communicating software design: class diagrams, documentations
  2. Practical implementation of OO programming in MD simulations
    1. Design Patterns
    2. Templates
    3. Parallel computing and OO framework

Lecture 1
Object-Oriented Programming in Simulations
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