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Good Practices in Scientific Programming

Paul F. Dubois
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Today's scientists may not consider themselves professional programmers, but many of them in fact program computers all day for money. Does that describe you? There aren't enough hours in the day to keep up with your own discipline, much less the overwhelming rate of change in the computer
industry. In this talk we will treat your "inner programmer" to a briefing
on some key concepts that can raise your productivity as a scientific
programmer.

The author is a mathematician and editor of the Scientific Programming
Department of IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE). He has more than 20 years experience writing large steered scientific simulations in
several disciplines. This talk contains some elements of his January 1999
essay in CiSE on this topic, together with some new developments.

Monday March 20, 2000
10:30 - 12:00 p.m.
Mesa Lab: Main Seminar Room.