You can get the most from Orekit by attending the training sessions organized by CS Systèmes d’Information. The instructors are the experts who design, develop, maintain and use Orekit.
The available training programs are geared toward those who are willing to use object-oriented technology in their projects and who have a space flight dynamics background rather than information technology background. These programs differ from classical object-oriented training sessions due to this strong orientation towards numerical computation and its focus on practical problems encountered in this field, such as reliability, numerical robustness and performance.
The complete set is split in three sessions
This session is oriented towards trainees who are not computer science experts. The following concepts are taught:
| type | prerequisites | duration |
|---|---|---|
| lecture | basic knowledge of development principles with programming languages like FORTRAN or C | 1 day |
session 1
At the end of this session, trainees will have a clear understanding of the differences between functional programming, imperative (procedural) programming, and object-oriented programming. They will know about primitive types, user types, dynamic memory allocation, data abstraction, classes and inheritance.
This session is a more general training session for the Java programming language. It is not directly oriented towards numerical computation. The following concepts are taught:
| type | prerequisites | duration |
|---|---|---|
| lecture, hands-on practice | knowledge of object-oriented principles as presented in session 1 | 4 days |
session 2
At the end of this session, trainees will know the syntax of the Java language and have gained an initial development experience that equips them to read and understand existing Java source and to develop small standalone Java applications.
This session is also oriented towards trainees who are not computer science experts but rather space flight dynamics engineers and numerical analysts. It adds the necessary do’s and don’ts that apply to high performance and robust numerical applications development, especially in mathematics and space flight dynamics fields. The following topics are covered:
| type | prerequisites | duration |
|---|---|---|
| lecture, hands-on practice | space flight dynamics or numerical analysis background , knowledge of object-oriented principles as presented in session 1, basic knowledge of the Java language syntax | 3 days |
session 3
At the end of this session, trainees will have a pragmatic knowledge of the benefits of object-oriented paradigm for the development of scientific algorithms. They will understand some common pitfalls and know how to avoid them in developing robust and high performance code. They will know the available concepts and algorithms in the Apache Commons Math and Orekit libraries. They have their first development experience of space flight dynamics applications in an integrated development environment with these libraries.
The training sessions can be organized both at your premises anywhere in the world or at CS premises in Toulouse (France). All sessions are limited to 8 students. Prices for the training sessions at CS premises are shown in the following table:
| session | industry, commercial companies | academics, research laboratories | students |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object oriented technology for numerical computing (session 1) | 600 € | 300 € | 150 € |
| Object oriented concepts and the Java language (session 2) | 2400 € | 1200 € | 600 € |
| Developing numerical applications in the Java language using Apache commons-math and Orekit (session 3) | 1800 € | 900 € | 450 € |
prices for training sessions at CS premises
The prices above include training fees, a USB stick containing lecture material and exercises, and lunches. They include neither travel nor hotel fees.
For information about scheduled sessions or if you want to set up a session at your premises, please use the general orekit email address: orekit@c-s.fr or ask CS space flight dynamics department at the following address:
CS Systèmes d'Information BU E-space & Geoinformation parc de la plaine - 5 rue Brindejonc des Moulinais BP 15872 31506 Toulouse CEDEX 5 FRANCE phone: +33 5-61-17-66-66 (ask for Luc Maisonobe or Nicolas Frouvelle) fax: +33 5-61-34-84-15