CS 9A, "Fortran and Matlab for Programmers"

    1 unit, self-paced, P/NP;
    offered fall and spring semesters.
    Restrictions on enrollment: CS 9A should be counted as a
    "computer science service course", with restrictions on credit
    toward graduation as specified in the rules for such courses.

ABBREVIATED COURSE TITLE

    FORT+MTLB FOR PROGS

INSTRUCTOR IN CHARGE

    M. Clancy, Senior Lecturer

CATALOG DESCRIPTION

    Introduction to Fortran and Matlab for students who already know how
    to program.  Solution of problems drawn from numerical applications,
    e.g. root finding, numerical integration, simulation, matrix 
    manipulation, and graphing.

PREREQUISITE

    Programming experience similar to that gained in CS 3.

EXPANDED DESCRIPTION

    This course is aimed at students who need to know Fortran and Matlab
    for later work in numerical analysis, engineering, and science.
    It is organized similarly to other courses in the CS 9 series.
    Course activities include quizzes that test language details and
    programming assignments that provide practice with the languages
    and associated programming techniques.  Programming assignments are
    all drawn from numerical applications.

    Topic coverage is approximately as follows.
	Segment 1: looping constructs, character data, subroutines
	    and functions, Matlab vectors and graphing facilities.
	Segment 2: Fortran array processing constructs; passing
	    functions as arguments; array input and output.


TEXTBOOKS

    *Computing for Engineers and Scientists with Fortran 77*,
    second edition, D.D. McCracken and W. Salmon (John Wiley & Sons, 1988).

    *Engineering Problem Solving with Matlab*, second edition, D.M. Etter 
    (Prentice-Hall, 1997).

    *Fortran 77 for Engineers and Scientists*, fourth edition,
    L. Nyhoff and S. Leestma (Prentice-Hall, 1996).