Scientific software engineering for a simple ODE model

Contents:

• Scientific software engineering for a simple ODE model
• Sample problem and code
  • Mathematical problem
  • Flat program implementation
  • Function implementation
  • Prefixing functions by module names
• User interfaces
  • Creating command-line interfaces
  • Creating a graphical web user interface
• Verification
  • Comparison with hand calculations
  • Test function
  • Comparison with an exact discrete solution
  • Computing convergence rates
• Software engineering
  • Making a module
  • Prefixing imported functions by the module name
  • Doctests
  • Unit testing with nose
  • Classical class-based unit testing
  • Implementing simple problem and solver classes
  • Improving the problem and solver classes
• Performing scientific experiments
  • Software
  • Combining plot files
  • Interpreting output from other programs
  • Making a report
  • Publishing a complete project
• Exercises
  • Exercise 1: Refactor a flat program in terms of a function
  • Exercise 2: Compare methods for a given time mesh
  • Problem 3: Write a doctest
  • Problem 4: Write a nose test
  • Problem 5: Make a module
  • Exercise 6: Make use of a class implementation
  • Exercise 7: Generalize a class implementation
  • Exercise 8: Generalize an advanced class implementation
• Bibliography

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page