Reviews for A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (Texts in Computational Science and Engineering)

1. excelent textbook

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2010

   This is a textbook which origins come from a course in an university. On the
   one hand, this makes the author to explain things absolutely obvious, clearly
   oriented to students in the first years of their technical degree. On the
   other hand, some of these explanations become handy if you have to teach this
   material or even, sometimes, to learn the origins of something that you have
   accepted as obvious without knowing exactly why is so. This is particularly
   relevant in those parts dealing with mathematics (many in the book). The book
   probably is of no use for an expert on SciPy/Numpy, but it is definitely useful for
   people, like me, that is starting to discover the enormous capabilities of
   these python language extensions. I clearly recommend this book for such
   target users. The book is also excellently well written, with a clear and
   concise style. Errors seem to be absent from the text and exercises are very
   well targeted to the area of scientific computation.