Introduction to C++ EXCEL MATLAB & Basic Engineering Numerical Methods

Chapter 1. Introduction

 

1.1  Getting Started

1.2  Learning the material

1.3  Files and Folders

1.4  Moving Files around

1.5  The Choice of C++, Excel, and MATLAB

 

 

Chapter 2. Programming in C++

 

2.1 Installing the Dev-C++ Compiler

2.2 Organizing and running a simple C++ Program

2.3 Basic C++ Concepts and operations

2.4 Input and output in C++

2.5 Control Statements: if, else if, and else blocks

2.6 Control Statements: While loops

2.7 Control Statements: do-While, and for loops

2.8 Formatted output

2.9 User defined functions — single result functions

2.10 User defined functions-void functions

2.11 Arrays: single indexed (1-D)

2.12 Using arrays

2.13 Arrays: Double indexed (2-D)

2.14 Closing comments

2.15 Websites for more C++ training

 

 

Chapter 3. Excel

 

3.1 Getting Started

3.2 Navigating Excel

3.3 Basic Calculations

3.4 Formatting a table

3.5 Plotting data part I

3.6 Plotting data part II

3.7 Importing text files

3.8 Excel functions

3.9 Using if Statements

 

 

 

Chapter 4 Numerical Methods and Engineering Calculations

 

4.1 Linear Interpolation

4.2 Elementary Statistics

4.3 Linear regression

4.4 Root Finding: substitution, bisection

4.5 Root Finding: Newton’s method, secant method

4.6 Root Finding: using Excel

4.7 Numerical differentiation

4.8 Numerical integration

4.9 Euler’s method for differential equations

 

 

Chapter 5. Programming in MatLab

 

5.1 Getting Started

5.2 Understanding Matrices

2.3 Using MatLab help

5.4 Command line mode

5.5 Some matrix math

5.6 M files

5.7 Inputting data

5.8 Plotting

5.9 Input from Files

5.10 Formatted output

5.11 if blocks

5.12 Loops: for and while

5.13 Writing to files

5.14 User defined functions

5.15 MatLab Functions

5.16 MatLab fun funs