Jeffrey B. Morton
Auteur van Introduction to Basic
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Morton tried to use a generic version of BASIC in writing this book. It is, in fact, a version similar to DEC's BASIC-Plus running from a teletype terminal attached to a time-sharing minicomputer.
Because of the nature of his audience (engineering students), two chapters are devoted to computer math. Chapter 7 deals with matrices. Chapter 8 deals with numerical methods.
The projects also have a bent toward engineering: Simulation of a Self-Reproducing System, Computer Graphics, The Great Motorcycle Jump, the Supertanker Simulator, The Area Under a Curve, World Dynamics Simulation, Simulation of the Rhine Test for ESP, Computer Dating, The Porsche 917 Race Car, Queuing, Determination of Roots and Extrema, and Optimization by Linear Programming.… (meer)