Required Text:
A. Kelley and I. Pohl, A Book on C, Benjamin/Cummings, Redwood City, CA (1995), Third or Fourth edition.
You are expected to read the material in this text prior to the class period in which it will be covered. Refer to the Class Schedule for a detailed list of reading assignments.
Note: Many other books on C written at a similar level to Kelley and Pohl are available in the library under QA76.73.C15.
Strongly Recommended Texts:
W.H. Press, B.P. Flannery, S.A. Teukolsky and W.T. Vetterling, Numerical Recipes in C, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1992), Second edition.
This book belongs in the personal library of anyone serious about using numerical methods.
G. Rechtenwald, Numerical Methods with Matlab, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ (2000).
This book is a useful introduction to both Numerical Methods and MATLAB. Other guides for Matlab are available on-line (see lecture notes)
In addition, the following book has been placed on reserve:
B.W. Kernighan and D.M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1988), Second edition.
This terse book is the definition of the C programming language by its authors.
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