Introduction to Computing for Engineers

By William E. Mayo

This first-year text for courses in FORTRAN is geared toward the needs of today's engineering student, including significant coverage of numerical methods and emphasis on good programming practices along with the coverage of FORTRAN. The book provides students with the fundamentals of an operating system and text editor, the basic organization and objectives of a program, solid instruction in standard FORTRAN 77, necessary debugging tools, methods for good programming documentation and validation, and a foundation of numerical methods. It contains numerous examples and exercises employing engineering and science applications. Topics include status kinematics, fluid dynamics, statistics, equilibrium, electrical networks, filtering and more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070411395
• ISBN13: 9780070411395
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.3" x 8.8"