Practical Numerical C Programming

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

   PDF

2. Review of C

   • Philip Joyce

   Pages 1-32

3. Finance Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

      PDF

   2. Regression

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 35-48

   3. PMCC

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 49-71

   4. Stock Price Prediction

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 73-92

4. Commercial Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

      PDF

   2. Supermarket Stock

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 95-108

   3. Flight Information

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 109-128

   4. Power Plant Control

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 129-142

5. Physics Applications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

      PDF

   2. Energy Transfer

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 145-149

   3. Pendulum Simulation

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 151-161

   4. Center of Mass

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 163-178

   5. Brownian Motion

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 179-184

   6. Diffusion Lattice Model

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 185-196

   7. Chain Reaction

      • Philip Joyce

      Pages 197-206

6. Back Matter

   Pages 207-277

   PDF

Master the C code appropriate for numerical methods and computational modeling, including syntax, loops, subroutines, and files. Then, this hands-on book dives into financial applications using regression models, product moment correlation coefficients, and asset pricing. 

Next, Practical Numerical C Programming covers applications for engineering/business such as supermarket stock reordering simulation as well as flight information boards at airports and controlling a power plant. Finally, the book concludes with some  physics including building simulation models for energy and pendulum motion. Along the way, you’ll learn center-of-mass calculations, Brownian motion, and more. 

After reading and using this book, you'll come away with pragmatic case studies of actual applications using C code at work. Source code is freely available and includes the latest C20 standard release.  

What You Will Learn

• Apply regression techniques to find the pattern for depreciation of the value of cars over a period of years
• Work with the product moment correlation coefficient technique to illustrate the accuracy (or otherwise) of regression techniques
• Use the past stock values of an asset to predict what its future values may be using Monte Carlo methods
• Simulate the buying of supermarket stock by shoppers and check the remaining stock: if it is too low print a message to reorder the stock
• Create a file of arrivals for an airport and send data to the airport’s display boards to show the current situation for the incoming flights
• Simulate the patterns of particles moving in gases or solids 

Who This Book Is For 

Programmers and computational modelers with at least some prior experience with programming in C as well as programming in general.

 

• C
• programming
• language
• numerical
• applied
• algorithms
• numerical c
• development
• software
• source
• code
• C20
• C17

• Goostrey, UK

  Philip Joyce

Philip Joyce has 28 years experience as a software engineer – working on control of steel production, control of oil refineries, communications software (pre-Internet), office products (server software), and computer control of airports. Programming in Assembler, COBOL, Coral66, C, and C++. Mentor to new graduates in the company.  He also has a MSc in computational physics (including augmented matrix techniques and Monte Carlo techniques using Fortran) - Salford University 1996. Chartered scientist, chartered physicist, member of the Institute of Physics (member of the higher education group).

Policies and ethics