AM 129: Foundations of Scientific Computing¶
Welcome to the course AM 129, Foundations of Scientific Computing for Scientists and Engineers.
This is the class web page where you can find the course notes and materials. Think of it like the textbook for the course. The contents herein are going to be continuously updated throughout the quarter.
Instructor and TA¶
Instructor: Sean Riedel (sriedel@ucsc.edu), Applied Mathematics, Baskin Engineering (BE) 360
Main Lectures: MWF 4:00 pm – 5:05 pm, Natural Sciences Annex 101
Office Hours: In Person in BE-153A
Mondays 5-6 pm
Wednesdays 10-11 am
Fridays 3-4 pm
How to address me: please just call me Sean
TA: Chris DeGrendele (cdegrend@ucsc.edu)
Office Hours: On Zoom (passcode 123456)
Tuesdays 3-4 pm
Thursdays 2-3 pm
Contents¶
Assignments¶
Supplemental Reading material¶
For the most part, this webstie should be all you need as far as reading material goes. But if you find yourself looking for more, here are some other helpful resources.
Scientific computing lecture note by Prof. Randall LeVeque, Univ. of Washington
Fortran & C/C++ : Numerical recipes in Fortran and C, Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, Flannery
Python: An Introduction to Python, G. van Rossum
Dive Into Python 3, Mark Pilgrim
Effective Computation in Physics, Anthony Scopatz & Kathryn D. Huff, O’Reilly, 2015
Debugging: N. Matloff and P. J. Salzman, The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse, no starch press, San Francisco, 2008
Computing: M. Overton, Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic, SIAM, 2001
Version control:
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