C Programming: The Essentials for Engineers and Scientists (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science) - Hardcover

Brooks, David R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387986324 ISBN 13: 9780387986326

Verlag: Springer, 1999

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1 The Purpose of This Text This text has been written in response to two trends that have gained considerable momentum over the past few years. The first is the decision by many undergraduate engineering and science departments to abandon the traditional programming course based on the aging Fortran 77 standard. This decision is not surprising, considering the more modem features found in languages such as Pascal and C. However, Pascal never developed a strong following in scientific computing, and its use is in decline. The new Fortran 90 standard defines a powerful, modem language, but this long-overdue redesign of Fortran has come too late to prevent many colleges and universities from switching to C. The acceptance of C by scientists and engineers is based perhaps as. much on their perceptions of C as an important language, which it certainly is, and on C programming experience as a highly marketable skill, as it is on the suitability of C for scientific computation. For whatever reason, C or its derivative C++ is now widely taught as the first and often only programming language for undergraduates in science and engineering. The second trend is the evolving nature of the undergraduate engineering curriculum. At a growing number of institutions, the traditional approach of stressing theory and mathematics fundamentals in the early undergraduate years, and postponing real engineering applications until later in the curriculum, has been turned upside down.

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Dr. David R. Brooks is the president and founder of the Institute for Earth Science Research and Education, Eagleville, PA, USA. He was formally a research professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He is the author of a number of successful Springer titles, including Guide to HTML, JavaScript and PHP, An Introduction to PHP for Scientists and Engineers, An Introduction to HTML and JavaScript, C Programming, and Problem Solving with Fortran 90.

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• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0387986324
• ISBN 13: 9780387986326
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496
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