Course Number: 1090
Course Title: Introduction to the Tools
of Scientific Computing
- REPRESENTATIVE TEXTBOOK
- None
- COURSE DESCRIPTION
- Introduction to scientific computing on the Physics department Unix workstations.
- CO-REQUISITE
- None
- OTHER COMMENTS
- This course is being redesigned to be self-taught on the web.
- None
- MANDATORY TOPICS
- Topic 1:
- Unix file structure and basic commands
- Topic 2:
- Solving physics problems on spread sheets.
- Topic 3:
- Text editing with emacs.
- Topic 4:
- Elementary C programming.
- Topic 5:
- Introduction to symbolic math (Maple).
- Topic 6:
- Scientific report writing with LaTeX.
- Topic 7:
- Internet resources for scientific computing.
Prepared by Carleton DeTar, March 2, 1999