The primary purpose of this book is to help scientists and engineers
work ing intensively with computers to become more productive, have
more fun, and increase the reliability of their investigations.
Scripting in the Python programming language can be a key tool for
reaching these goals [27,29]. The term scripting means different
things to different people. By scripting I mean developing programs of
an administering nature, mostly to organize your work, using languages
where the abstraction level is higher and program ming is more
convenient than in Fortran, C, C++, or Java. Perl, Python, Ruby,
Scheme, and Tel are examples of languages supporting such high-level
programming or scripting. To some extent Matlab and similar scientific
com puting environments also fall into this category, but these
environments are mainly used for computing and visualization with
built-in tools, while script ing aims at gluing a range of different
tools for computing, visualization, data analysis, file/directory
management, user interfaces, and Internet communi cation. So,
although Matlab is perhaps the scripting language of choiee in
computational science today, my use of the term scripting goes beyond
typi cal Matlab scripts. Python stands out as the language of choice
for scripting in computational science because of its very elean
syntax, rieh modulariza tion features, good support for numerical
computing, and rapidly growing popularity. What Scripting is About.
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ISBN
9783662054505
Publisert
2020
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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