Quick BASIC Programming for Scientists & Engineers
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 1992
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-8493-4434-3 (ISBN)
Description
QuickBASIC Programming for Scientists and Engineers teaches computer programming from the ground up with Microsoft QuickBASIC, a modern, fast, easy-to-learn programming language. Examples used throughout the book are useful for students and professionals in chemistry, physics, and engineering. The book covers the basics and then proceeds to more sophisticated programs using a disk (enclosed with the book) containing pretested procedures for important operations such as
Graphing (screen, printers, plotters)
Data entry/edit/save/retrieve
File management
Linear regression
Nonlinear regression
Cubic spline interpolation
Romberg integration
Differential equations
Fourier transform.
With these routines, you get many of the advantages of a spreadsheet, but with a simpler, more powerful programming language. QuickBASIC Programming for Scientists and Engineers shows you what these routines do and how to use them effectively. Because the book provides the source code, you can even customize these routines to suit your specific needs.
The modules disk runs on any IBM (c) or compatible microcomputer with a graphics board, 640K RAM, DOS 3.0 or higher, and a copy of Microsoft QuickBASIC (version 4.0 or higher). The book is perfect for any scientist or engineering professional who needs to learn QuickBASIC programming quickly and easily.
Graphing (screen, printers, plotters)
Data entry/edit/save/retrieve
File management
Linear regression
Nonlinear regression
Cubic spline interpolation
Romberg integration
Differential equations
Fourier transform.
With these routines, you get many of the advantages of a spreadsheet, but with a simpler, more powerful programming language. QuickBASIC Programming for Scientists and Engineers shows you what these routines do and how to use them effectively. Because the book provides the source code, you can even customize these routines to suit your specific needs.
The modules disk runs on any IBM (c) or compatible microcomputer with a graphics board, 640K RAM, DOS 3.0 or higher, and a copy of Microsoft QuickBASIC (version 4.0 or higher). The book is perfect for any scientist or engineering professional who needs to learn QuickBASIC programming quickly and easily.
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Content
INTRODUCTION. The QB Editor. How Computers Store Information. BASIC Variables. Variable Names and Types. BASIC Operators. Input/Output of Data. BASIC FUNCTIONS. Numeric Functions. String Functions. User-Defined Functions. BASIC PROGRAMS. About Programs. Program Bugs. Sums and Factorials: FOR...NEXT. Conditional Statements: Logical Variables. Fibonacci Numbers: DO...LOOP. Applications. Recursive Functions: Hermite Polynomial. ARRAYS AND SUBROUTINES. Arrays. Subroutines. Maximum and Minimum of Array. Scope of Variables. Sorting. Array Mean and Standard Deviation. Least Squares Straight Line. Array Differentiation and Integration. The GOSUB Alternative: Line Numbers. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING. SELECT CASE. Program Roots. Planning Ahead. Program Design. MODULES. Program Structure. Scope of Variable. Transferring Code between Programs. The GENSUBS Module. Where Are My Modules? Modification of Modules. List Editing. ERROR HANDLING. GRAPHS. Graphics Commands. Applications. Color on Graphic Screens. The SCRPLOT Module. Graphing Functions. Applications. DATA I/O. Disk Files. Printing on a Printer. File Manager Module. The DATAIO Module. All of the Above. CURVE FITTING: REGRESSION. Linear Regression. Test Program. Nonlinear Regression. Test Program. Designing a Structured Program. INTERPOLATION. Lagrange Interpolation. Cubic Spline Interpolation. B-Splines. INTEGRATION. The Richardson Extrapolation. Romberg Integration. Program ROMBERG. Applications. DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Euler Method. Runge-Kutta. Chemical Kinetics. Second-Order Differential Equations. Other Applications. MATRIX ALGEBRA. Basic Operations. Simultaneous Linear Equations: Matrix Inversion. FOURIER TRANSFORM. FT Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. The Logistic Equation. FT Filters. DATA BASE PROGRAMMING. Data Types. Random-Access Disk Files. Changing the Data Structure. COMPLEX NUMBERS. COMPILED PROGRAMS AND LIBRARIES. Compiling and Linking. Libraries. Alternatives. Foreign Languages. MORE ABOUT QUICKBASIC. Variable Storage. Fixed Length Strings. $INCLUDE Files. DOS Functions from BASIC. TRANSLATING FORTRAN TO BASIC. Relational Operators. Iteration. Numerical Operators. Procedures and Arrays. Other Differences. Translation with a Text Editor. PRINTING GRAPHICS. Output to Device. HPGL and HPLOT Commands. Sample Program. Setting Plotter Defaults. APPENDIX: LIST OF PROCEDURES AND FILES. GENSUBS.BAS Module. SCRPLOT.BAS Module. DATAIO.BAS Module. FILMANAG.BAS Module. REGRESS.BAS Module. SPLINE.BAS Module. QMATH.BAS Module. HPLOT.BAS Module. Other Software.