IN3030/IN4330 WELCOME message :-)

Hi everyone taking IN3030 or IN4330 Spring 2026 :-)

WELCOME to this course - it is a Learning-by-doing course where you will get lots of experience in programming effective and efficient Java programs for multi-core machine - which is ALL modern machines - even my cell phone has multiple cores.

So exploiting parallelism is a powerful way to gain efficient programs :-)

I am looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 to give you a kick-off for this exciting course (well, many students find it exciting, but that's up to you to decide ;-) ).?

Some practical details:?

• The course is taught in English - for several reasons: we have international exchange students that do not understand Norwegian either at all or not very well.
• The two main teachers are myself, Eric, and Paulo. I am Danish, Paulo is Portuguese, so most find our Norwegian to be less than desirable ;-)
• The course is a dual 3000/4000 level course: for all practical purposes, it is irrelevant whether you are a bachelor student or a masters student taking the course (albeit, the masters students are expected to do slightly more work than the bachelor students). ?
• Especially for IN4330 students: all info will be published on the IN3030 course web pages - the IN4330 web pages will not be updated (nor touched!) - just look at the IN3030 pages.
• The IN3030 web pages will be populated with good stuff soon including reading materials. IF you are curious AND CANNOT wait, just go to the Spring 2025 version of IN3030 - the course has not change much :-)
• I retired in September and live in Denmark, so you will see me as a Professor Emeritus about once a month - Paulo will take care of the remaining lectures - except the exciting (non-curriculum) lecture on Quantum Computing that Michael will give in May :-)
• BECAUSE it is a learning-by-doing course, we have less theoretical material and more hands-on programming, so during the larger obligs, we have fewer lectures so that you can work hard on the obligs without having to attend bothersome lectures.

See you Wednesday!

Sincerely, Eric