Topics: 

• Finish any remaining previous labs.
• Discussion of floating-point math on computers (see demo on higher precision)
  
• Summary of topics and methods.
• Recommendations for good programming style. (also see Fortran90 Best Pracrtices )
  
• Your future programming activities.
• Discussion of upcoming final exam.
• Reminder to do the online instructor evaluations.

Lecture Notes: .  PDF Copy of Powerpoint Lectures for Last Week of Term .

Reading Assignment:  Catch up on previous reading assignments. The final exam will cover mostly the readings from your course material pack:

• Course Pack section on Computer-language Evolution:
• Hayes, B., 2006: The semicolon wars.  American Scientist, 94, 299-303.
• Levenz, E. 2012: History of programming languages.  (a timeline chart)
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• Course Pack section on Good Programming Practices: 
• Section from:  B.W. Kernighan and R. Pike, 1999: The Practice of Programming.  Addison Wesley)
• Epilogue
• Appendix - Collected Rules
• Chapter 5 - Debugging (focus on main topics and methods, not on any one programming language)
• Section from: S.J. Chapman, 2008:  Fortran 95/2003 for Scientists & Engineers, 3rd Ed.  McGraw Hill.  
• only the first 8 pages of Chapter 3 Program design and branching structures, which cover top-down design and flowcharting.
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• Course Pack on Binary Calculations and Pitfalls:
• Press, Teukolsky, Vetterline, Flannery, 2007: Numerical Recipes in C, 2nd Ed.  
• only pages 28 - 31 in Section 1.3 Error, Accuracy, and Stability, which covers binary numbers, numerical accuracy, and numerical errors.
• S.J. Chapman, 1998:  Fortran 90/95 for Scientists & Engineers, 1st Ed.  McGraw Hill.  
• only the first 15 pages of Chapter 12 Intro to Numerical Methods, which covers round-off errors, truncation errors, and other in numerical-calculation errors.
• B. Hayes, 2009: The higher arithmetic.   American Scientist,  97, 364-368.
  

Goal of Readings: To help you prepare for the written final exam.

Homework Assignment:  (None, other than finish the readings in the Custom Course Materials.)

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