This text teaches the essentials of C programming, concentrating on what readers need to know in order to produce stand-alone programs and so solve typical scientific and engineering problems. It is a learning-by-doing book, with many examples and exercises, and lays a foundation of scientific programming concepts and techniques that will prove valuable for those who might eventually move on to another language. Written for undergraduates who are familiar with computers and typical applications but are new to programming.
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The easiest way to learn C programming.,
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This review is from: C Programming: The Essentials for Engineers and Scientists (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science) (Hardcover)
Most C-programming books are very thick and the authors spend a lot of pages in explaining historical and detailed aspects of the C-language. As a chemist I often get frustrated when reading these type of books since it takes about 250 pages before they e.g. explain how to read or write to a file. When you finish the books you are not at a level of solving real problems in C. C programming: The Essentials for Engineers and Scientists by David R. Brooks goes, as the title says, directly to the essentials for a scientist. The book is based on a five-step problem solving procedure throughout the book. This way of structural-thinking, which is often neglected in other books, helps the reader to get a good programming habit in any programming language. Since the book is very problem oriented, the author is able to cover more advanced programming topics than other C-books. The book is designed for undergraduate studies without any knowledge in programming, but may be used by anyone interested in learning C. Many programming examples and exercises are taken from the field of chemistry and physics and thus, the book is perfect as a introduction course in C for chemists and physicists.
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Very helpful book to make simple programs in C,
This review is from: C Programming: The Essentials for Engineers and Scientists (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science) (Hardcover)
It is very good book for beginners that need to make a C program not very complicated but quickly to solve a problem.
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This is possibly the best book I've ever seen for engineers and scientists trying to learn how to program in C. However, supplementary material that aids in learning examples found in this book no longer exist. I wrote the author an email asking why his website for his c-code examples no longer exist, and I was informed that the book is "too old!" Without the supplementary material I need, I'm sure I will have a difficult time learning chapter 3 when it requires c-code created in chapter 6.
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There are two basic skills you must develop while learning to write programs in C. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pseudocode command, linearly linked list, implicit type cast, explicit type cast, rounded minute, conversion specifiers, hyperbolic sin, scanf statement, pivot value, debugging your programs, indirection operator, scanf function, modify your program, loop counter variable, header node, proposed weight, ozone data, current pointer, switch construct, double radius, update expression, format specifier, calling argument, pointer field, statements inside the loop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Problem Discussion, Selection Sort, Trapezoidal Rule, Insertion Sort, Snell's Law, Rectangular Rule, Astronomical Algorithms, Jean Meeus, More About Strings, Read List, Recall Exercise, The British New!
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pseudocode command, linearly linked list, implicit type cast, explicit type cast, rounded minute, conversion specifiers, hyperbolic sin, scanf statement, pivot value, debugging your programs, indirection operator, scanf function, modify your program, loop counter variable, header node, proposed weight, ozone data, current pointer, switch construct, double radius, update expression, format specifier, calling argument, pointer field, statements inside the loop Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Problem Discussion, Selection Sort, Trapezoidal Rule, Insertion Sort, Snell's Law, Rectangular Rule, Astronomical Algorithms, Jean Meeus, More About Strings, Read List, Recall Exercise, The British New!
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- Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus on page 223, page 224, and page 228
- Engineering Thermodynamics by Merle Potter on page 66
- Automata and Computability (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science) by Dexter C. Kozen in Front Matter
- An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering (Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science) by Pankaj Jalote in Front Matter
- Introduction to Solar Radiation by Muhammad Iqbal on page 228
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