C Program Design for Engineers - Softcover

Hanly, Jeri; Koffman, Elliot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020170871X ISBN 13: 9780201708714

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

This book presents introductory programming and software development concepts to engineers using a disciplined approach. It provides numerous case studies and programming projects based on real-world examples from a wide range of engineering areas, making the material relevant to what engineers will encounter in their careers; the authors introduce implementations of basic numerical and statistical methods commonly used by engineers. Another feature is the addition of a chapter entitled "On to C++" that prepares readers for a transition to object-oriented programming. The book focuses on many aspects of software engineering, establishing early the connection between good problem-solving skills and effective software development. A five-phase software development method is presented in Chapter 1 and applied in every subsequent case study throughout. The book presents material in an order that meets the needs of a beginning programmer, rather than by the structure of the C programming language. This approach makes it possible to present fundamental concepts using traditional high-level terminology--output parameter, array, array subscript, string--and makes it easier for readers without a prior assembly-language background to master the many facets of pointer usage. This book is designed to introduce C programming to engineers in a way that is relevant to their engineering practice.

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About the Author

Jeri R. Hanly is a member of the computer science faculty at the University of Wyoming. She has developed software for target recognition in collaboration with naval researchers in China Lake, California and has taught software engineering seminars for professional developers of computing systems in the U.S. and Canada. Elliot Koffman is a professor of computer and information science at Temple University. He is one of the country's foremost CS educators, a former chairman of the ACM Task Force for introductory programming methods courses, and author of a number of successful language texts in Modula-2, FORTRAN, in addition to his four editions of Pascal and Turbo Pascal.Joan C. Horvath received a B.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from M.I.T. and her M.S. in mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering from U.C.L.A. She has held positions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, in flight project operations, software development and scheduling.0201590646AB04062001

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 020170871X
• ISBN 13: 9780201708714
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 704