Writing scientific software a guide for good style
Writing scientific software a guide for good style By Oliveira, Suely;Stewart, David
2006 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 0521858968 | PDF | 2 MB
2006 | 303 Pages | ISBN: 0521858968 | PDF | 2 MB
This manual of scientific computing style will prove to be an essential addition to the bookshelf and lab of everyone who writes numerical software. Scientists, engineers and computer scientists who follow its advice will learn how to write good software, and how to test it for bugs, accuracy and performance.;Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Why numerical software?; 2 Scientific computation and numerical analysis; 3 Priorities; 4 Famous disasters; 5 Exercises; 6 Basics of computer organization; 7 Software design; 8 Data structures; 9 Design for testing and debugging; 10 Exercises; 11 Be algorithm aware; 12 Computer architecture and efficiency; 13 Global vs. local optimization; 14 Grabbing memory when you need it; 15 Memory bugs and leaks; 16 Sources of scientific software; 17 Unix tools; 18 Cubic spline function library; 19 Multigrid algorithms.