dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) (12/10/90)
In article <27304.27610742@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >One of the frustrations of practicing scientists who are genuinely >interested in learning about C (or any other potentially useful >computational technique, for that matter) is that it's difficult to >get information that is both objective and understandable. I have been trying to find and study all books which attempt to present C language programming, or C program examples, to scientists and engineers who are likely to have a background in FORTRAN. So far, I have located only the following titles. Would the readers of these newsgroups kindly recommend others, if any exist? I've already scanned a few on-line card catalogs, but my list can't be exhaustive. Press, et al. _Numerical Recipes in C: the Art of Scientific Computing_, Cambridge University Press 1988. Kempf, J., _Numerical Software Tools in C_, Prentice-Hall 1987. Baker, L., _C Tools for Scientists and Engineers_, McGraw-Hill 1989. Baker, L., _More C Tools for Scientists and Engineers_, McGraw-Hill 1990. Books specific to particular engineering or scientific disciplines would also be useful. -- Dan Mocsny Snail: Internet: dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu Dept. of Chemical Engng. M.L. 171 dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu University of Cincinnati 513/751-6824 (home) 513/556-2007 (lab) Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0171
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (12/11/90)
In article <6910@uceng.UC.EDU> dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes: >I have been trying to find and study all books which attempt to >present C language programming, or C program examples, to scientists >and engineers who are likely to have a background in FORTRAN. The absolutely best C tutorial for already experienced programmers who don't know C (are there any left?) is Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language"; in most cases the Second Edition is preferred. C is so much more suited to general applications than Fortran that limiting one's attention to science/engineering applications would produce a quite imperfect understanding of how to exploit the language.