Abstract
This talk will provide a survey of the goals and content of
MAT 420, Scientific Computing, as it has been taught for
the past two years. I will discuss how the course fits
in the mathematics curricula at ASU and will give reasons
for the selection of the material that has been covered,
which includes shell scripting, Perl, Fortran 95 and the
C++ Standard Template Library, and some of their applications
in scientific computing.
