Writing Scientific Software - A Guide to Good Style (Paperback)

The core of scientific computing is designing, writing, testing, debugging and modifying numerical software for application to a vast range of areas: from graphics, meteorology and chemistry to engineering, biology and finance. Scientists, engineers and computer scientists need to write good code, for speed, clarity, flexibility and ease of re-use. Oliveira and Stewart's style guide for numerical software points out good practices to follow, and pitfalls to avoid. By following their advice, readers will learn how to write efficient software, and how to test it for bugs, accuracy and performance. Techniques are explained with a variety of programming languages, and illustrated with two extensive design examples, one in Fortran 90 and one in C++: other examples in C, C++, Fortran 90 and Java are scattered throughout the book. This manual of scientific computing style will be an essential addition to the bookshelf and lab of everyone who writes numerical software.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Suely Oliveira • David E. Stewart
Dimensions:	174 x 246 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	316
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-67595-6
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Software engineering
LSN:	0-521-67595-2
Barcode:	9780521675956

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