Writing Scientific Software

A Guide to Good Style

Suely Oliveira author David E Stewart author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:7th Sep '06

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This paperback is available in another edition too:

Writing Scientific Software cover

A manual and guide to good scientific computing style, explaining how to write good software and how to test it for bugs, accuracy and performance.

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.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.

'Writing Scientific Software bridges the chasm that too often separates numerical analysis from real scientific computing. It is full of tips, tricks, and just plain interesting information. The reader will learn how to write code that takes advantage of many hidden features in modern computer architectures, programming languages, and compilers. This is a book that is full of good sense.' William H. Press, author of Numerical Recipes
'The book is a useful tool working in the filed of scientific computations…' Zentralblatt MATH

ISBN: 9780521675956

Dimensions: 174mm x 246mm x 16mm

Weight: 549g

316 pages