Writing Scientific Software: A Guide to Good Style - Hardcover

Oliveira, Suely; Stewart, David E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521858968 ISBN 13: 9780521858960

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Suely Oliveira is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Iowa.

David Stewart is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Iowa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521858968
• ISBN 13: 9780521858960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316