Phys 540: Introduction to Scientific Computing

Contents:

• Setup
  • Services
  • System
  • Languages
• Introduction
  • What is a computer?
  • Programming languages
  • How does computation relate to physics?
• Interacting via the terminal
  • Bourne Again SHell (BASH)
  • Paths
  • Commands
  • Job control
  • Pattern matching
  • Redirection and chaining
  • Scripts
  • Quotes
  • Variables
  • Shell arithmetic
  • Control structures
  • Evaluation of expressions
  • Functions
  • Useful idioms
• Unix tools
  • The GNU Compiler Collection
  • Make files
  • Vi and Vim
  • Gnuplot
  • Asymptote
  • GhostScript
  • ImageMagick
  • LaTeX
  • Archival and compression
• Integer representations
  • Integers
  • Signed and unsigned binary numbers
  • Limitations
  • C++ integer types
• Exercise 1

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page