Books and other prerequisites

1. Book: Introduction to Scientific Computing and Data Analysis (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 13)
   2nd ed. 2023 Edition

   by Mark Holmes, –REQUIRED
   

   Text book

   ISBN-10-3031224299

   amazon 83 USD

2. Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey by Michael Heath. ISBN: 978-1-611975-57-4 Second edition Recommended

3. Willingness to work in Matlab

   Guides to Matlab:

   • For detailed introduction see

     Numerical Computing with Matlab

   • A Practical Introduction to Matlab by Mark S. Gockenbach

   • Matlab Academy
     Need RPI account

4. Wikepedia
   

Alternative to Matlab Freely available packages named Octave
“Octave” (octave.org) and Scilab (scilab.org) offer functionality similar to that of Matlab. You may find these free options to be apealing, especially for off-campus use.