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Manufacturing Engineering Modular Series C Programming for Scientists & Engineering
The aim of this book is to provide a rapid introduction to the C programming language. C is a procedural language and should not be confused with C+ + , which requires a significantly different way of thinking about problems and their solutions. With the explosion of texts on C++ and other object-oriented languages in recent years, along with the perception that C + + is somehow a progression beyond C, it may seem a little strange to consider a programming book that is not object oriented. I feel that there are two good reasons for producing this book. Firstly, object-oriented analysis, design and programming techniques have evolved to provide interactive software that is extremely good at supporting complex tasks performed by its users. However, supporting computer users in this way is just one aspect of software development. Another significant aspect is the support of numerical analysis and computer-based modelling in a wide range of engineering and other scientific disciplines, where the priority is to solve equations as quickly as possible. Examples of this are numerous - the modelling of stress and temperature distributions in the design of aircraft and automobiles, the modelling of fluid flow in weather and climate prediction, the modelling of interactions between molecules and atoms in the engineering of therapeutic drugs and new materials.
Using computers to perform the calculations in these and many other technical applications is a very different problem from enabling a computer user to do almost anything they want in any sequence. Both problems are very important, but they need different tools for their solution. Procedural languages, such as C, are typically more appropriate than object-oriented languages, such as C ++, for engineering and scientific calculations because the resulting programs can make more efficient use of the relevant hardware resources.
Having said that, the second reason for learning C is that C++ is C with added functionality and that around 90% of any C+ + program is actually C. The big difference between C and C + + is not so much in the languages, but in how we think about problems and their solutions. Having thought in an object-oriented way, C + + has the additional functionality over C that allows us to build software that is consistent with our object-oriented thinking. Knowledge of C provides around 90% of the programming knowledge needed to implement object-oriented software.
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