An Introduction to Programming and Numerical Methods in MATLAB

This introduction to programming places computer science in the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process. This approach fosters a variety of skills--critical reading, analytical thinking, creative synthesis, and attention to detail--that are important for everyone, not just future computer programmers.The book exposes readers to two fundamentally new ideas. First, it presents program design guidelines that show the reader how to analyze a problem statement; how to formulate concise goals; how to make up examples; how to develop an outline of the solution, based on the analysis; how to finish the program; and how to test. Each step produces a well-defined intermediate product. Second, ...

Emacs Lisp is a simple, complete, and powerful programming language. It is the building block of GNU Emacs, which is an integrated development environment with special features for scanning and parsing text as well as for handling multiple files and sub-processors. This book will show you: * how to set variables and write function definitions * How to use "if" and "let" * How to write "while" loops and recursive loops * how to search for a word or expression * how to customize GNU Emacs for yourself, even when it is shared on a network. * how to debug programs * and much more. This tutorial an elementary introduction to teach non-programmers how to customize their work environment; it can also be used as an introduction ...

This book is a short, concise introduction to computer programming using the language Go. Designed by Google, Go is a general purpose programming language with modern features, clean syntax and a robust well-documented common library, making it an ideal language to learn as your first programming language....