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  Programming for computations -- MATLAB/Octave
Linge S., Langtangen H., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 216 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319324-51-7)

The title suggests the book is about MATLAB programming, and it is. It’s also about numerical analysis. It’s a textbook for a numerical analysis course that integrates MATLAB programming as its method for solving nu...
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Feb 22 2017  
  Programming for computations - Python: a gentle introduction to numerical simulations with Python
Linge S., Langtangen H., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 232 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319324-27-2)

Python is widely used in computational science, numerical methods, and scientific programming courses and in computer science. There are many good textbooks available for such courses, but none quite like this one....
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Feb 9 2017  
  A primer on scientific programming with Python (4th ed.)
Langtangen H., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, Berlin, Germany, 2014. 872 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-642549-58-8)

This fourth edition is a wonderful, inclusive textbook that covers pretty much everything one needs to know to go from zero to fairly sophisticated scientific programming in Python. It uses Python 2.7. The author notes that a lot of us...
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Feb 3 2015  
  A primer on scientific programming with Python (3rd ed.)
Langtangen H., Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, 2012. 830 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-642302-92-3)

Instead of calling this book “a primer,” a more apt title would be A detailed treatise on scientific programming with Python. This voluminous book offers an excellent and detailed explanation of programming p...
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Feb 27 2013  
  A literature review of agile practices and their effects in scientific software development
Sletholt M., Hannay J., Pfahl D., Benestad H., Langtangen H.  SECSE 2011 (Proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering, Waikiki, Honolulu, HI, May 28, 2011) 1-9, 2011.  Type: Proceedings

What are the effects of using agile practices in scientific software development? As a first step, the authors undertook a systematic literature search. The five papers that were found worthy of scrutiny yielded ten project description...
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Feb 22 2012  

 
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