"College students in USA take this course in the 3rd year of their 4 year BS degree program. It is a semester long (16 weeks, 40 hours of lecture) course. I have taught this course many times in USA. The course syllabus contains: Fundamentals of MATLAB programming, Solving System of Linear Equations, Roots of Nonlinear Equations, Curve Fitting and Interpolation, Numerical Differentiation, Numerical Integration, Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations: Initial Value Problems (Euler’s method, RungeKutta method) and Boundary Value Problems (Finite Difference method). Comment: After consulting with the Sichuan university’s faculty members some of these topics can be omitted from the final offering to fit in the short course"