Part I: Fundamentals of Programming

Lesson 1

Fundamentals of Programming: Introduction to Computers & Programming, Programming in Engineering Problem Solving Program Development: Algorithm + Flowchart + Pseudocode

Part II: Programming with C

Lesson 2

C Fundamentals: identifiers & keywords, data types, constants, variables & arrays, declarations, expressions, statements, symbolic constants Operators and Expressions: arithmetic, unary, relational, logical & assignment operators, library functions

Lesson 3

Data Input and Output: getchar/putchar, scanf/printf, gets/puts Preparing and Running a Complete C Program

Lesson 4

Control Statements: Branching with if-else, looping with while and do-while Control Statements: Looping with for, nested control structures, switch, break, continue & goto statements

Lesson 5

Functions: Definition, calling a function, function prototypes, passing arguments to function, recursion Arrays: Definition, processing arrays, passing arrays to functions, multidimensional arrays, arrays & strings Data File

Lesson 6

Programming Project 1 (Using C)

Part III: Programming with Octave/Matlab

Lesson 7

An Overview of Octave/Matlab Numeric, Cell and Structured Arrays

Lesson 8

Functions and Files

Lesson 9

Programming with Octave/Matlab Preparing and Running a Complete Octave/Matlab Program

Lesson 10

Plotting: 2-D, Contour and Surface Plotting Simple Animation and Movie-making

Lesson 11

Programming Project 2 (Using Octave)

Resources

Recommended Readings

• Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of PROGRAMMING WITH C, 2ed, Byron S. Gottfried, McGraw-Hill (1996)
• Introduction to Matlab for Engineers, 3ed, William J. Palm III, McGraw-Hill (2011)
• C for Engineers and Scientists: An Introduction to Progrmming with ANSI C, Gary J. Bronson, West Publishing Company (1995)
• C Programming for Scientists & Engineers, Robert L. Wood, Penton Press (2002)
• Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, 5ed, Brian D. Hahn & Daniel T. Valentine, Elsevier (2013)
• MATLAB Primer, 8ed, Timothy A. Davis, CRC Press (2011)
• Programming in C: A Tutorial
• An Introduction to the C Programming Language and Software Design
• A Practical Introduction to Matlab
• Matlab by Example
• Matlab Primer