ATSC 212
Earth & Atmospheric Science Intro Computing Lab

Required Textbooks:

• Course Materials Pack.    (Available from the UBC Bookstore AFTER week 4 of term.)

Recommended Optional References:

• D. S. Ray, 2002: Mastering HTML and XHTML, Sybex.  1107pp.  ISBN 0782141412.

• Barrett, D.J., 2004: Linux Pocket Guide , O'Reilly.  ISBN 0-596-00628-4.
• B.W. Kernighan and R. Pike, 1984: The UNIX Programming Environment.  Prentice Hall. 357 pp.  ISBN 0-13-937699-2   or  ISBN 013937681X. 

• S. J. Chapman, 2004: Fortran 90/95 For Scientists & Engineers, 2nd Ed., McGraw Hill Canada. ISBN 0-07-282575-8.

• B.W. Kernighan and D.M. Ritchie, 1988: The C Programming Language, 2nd Ed.  Prentice Hall Software Series.  ISBN 0-13-110362-8.

• S. Holzner, 2004: Perl Core Language Little Black Book, 2nd Ed., O'Reilly. ISBN 1-932111-92-1.

• George Reese, Randy Jay Yarger, Tim King, 2002: Managing & Using MySQL, 2nd Ed., O'Reilly, 442 pp. ISBN: 0-596-00211-4.

• J. Campbell, P. Gries, J. Montojo, and G. Wilson, 2009: Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python.  Pragmatic Bookshelf.  350 pages, ISBN: 978-1-93435-627-2
• Dave Kuhlman, 2008: Python 101 -- Introduction to Python.   Free online.  
• Allen Downey, 2010:  Python for Software Design.  Cambridge Univ. Press.  ISBN-13: 9780521898119.   Free online versions available . 
• iPython Interactive Computing:   http://ipython.org/
  Lighthouse in the Sky, ipython notebook interface review.  http://lighthouseinthesky.blogspot.com/2011/09/review-ipython-notebooks.html

• G. Wilson,2011:  Software Carpentry.  Online.   Open-source lectures to teach scientists how to write better programs faster.
• B.W. Kernighan and R. Pike, 1999: The Practice of Programming.  Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series. 267 pp.  ISBN 0-201-61586-X. 
• Gaël Varoquaux, 2010: Software design for maintainability.  Online .  

• Press, W.H., S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, and B.P. Flannery, 2002:  Numerical Recipes in C++.  The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd Ed.  Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521750334.  pp1032
• Press, W.H., S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, and B.P. Flannery, 1992:  Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77.  The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd Ed.  Cambridge University Press, ISBN 052143064X.  pp992
• Free copies of some of these books are at:
  http://www.numerical-recipes.com/nronline_switcher.php  

Footnotes regarding the recommended optional references.  

It is too expensive for you to purchase all of these books.  Instead, we will provide a few copies of these optional references for students to share during the lab period.  

After you graduate, if you find that you need to program in one of the languages for your job, then the first book you should buy is the one we recommend above for that language.