Course setting

Course setting#

This course will be delivered in a hybrid mode, with online lectures and on site or online laboratory sessions.

  1. Two times two lectures per week, Fall semester, 10 ECTS. The Monday lectures will be recorded and linked to this site and the official University of Oslo website for the course;

  2. fours hours of laboratory sessions for work on computational projects and exercises for each group.

  3. Three projects which are graded and count 1/3 each of the final grade.

  4. A selected number of weekly assignments;

  5. The course is part of the CS Master of Science program, but is open to other bachelor and Master of Science students at the University of Oslo;

  6. The course is offered as a FYS-STK4155 (Master of Science level) and a FYS-STK3155 (senior undergraduate) course;

  7. Videos of teaching material will be made available via the links of the course;

  8. Weekly emails with summary of activities will be mailed to all participants;

Weekly teaching format, fall 2026 (weeks 35-48)#

From week 35 to week 48 the teaching weeks follow a fixed rhythm, with two double sessions per week.

Mondays (2 x 45 min): lectures. A more traditional lecture based on the textbook chapters, but broken up by Pause and think questions every few slides: a short question you discuss with your neighbour for a minute before we go through the answer together. The slides for each week (with the questions and answers included) are made available before the lecture, and the reading for the week is always a named set of sections from the book.

Tuesdays (2 x 45 min): flipped classroom. You have heard Monday’s lecture and skimmed the reading; the Tuesday session belongs to your questions and to hands-on work. The format is

  1. the first twenty minutes or so are for open questions from Monday’s lecture, followed by a set of warm-up questions discussed in plenum;

  2. the rest of the double session is case work in pairs or small groups, on concrete cases taken from the lectures, the weekly exercise sets and the projects, using a companion notebook provided for each week. We circulate and help, with short plenary wrap-ups between cases;

  3. the last five minutes summarize what to finish before the weekly exercise deadline and what next Monday’s lecture builds on.

The cases are chosen so that the code written on Tuesdays is directly reusable in the weekly exercises and in the projects. The weekly exercise sets have their deadline on Fridays at midnight.

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