Mathematical problems in the first course of programming

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to give an example how typical problems taken from the mathematical courses of Linear Algebra, Analytical Geometry, Probability Theory, Number Theory, etc., can be incorporated in the first course of programming in a typical curriculum of a university specialty in the field of Informatics. The idea is to present the students with a link to the courses that are often blamed to be purely theoretical, and in the same time to give them the introduction to the not so straightforward by itself topic of computer programming, without shifting the focus of the course.