C++ Programming for Scientists

Roldan Pozo

Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory

Karin Remington

Scientific Computing Environments Division

Course Notes

Lecture 1: ANSI C,
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• Acrobrat (PDF) (205 KB)


Lecture 2: C++ as a better C,
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Lecture 3: C++ Classes and Objects,
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Lecture 4: Objects in Scientific Computing,
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Lecture 5: Inheritance & Polymorphism,
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Lecture 6: Templates, Exceptions & Observations,
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Programming Examples

• ANSI C stack example
• C++ struct example: dynamic stack.
• C++ class example: dynamic stack.

Scientific Library Examples

• LAPACK++: Linear Algebra Package
• SparseLib++ package for sparse matrix computations
• IML++ : Iterative Methods Library
• MV++ : Matrix/Vector Library