1. Floating point arithmetic
Floating point numbers
Overflow, underflow and machine precision
2. Graphics
Two- and three-dimensional plots
3. Programming scripts and functions
Conditional statements.
Loop control statements.
Scripts versus functions
4. Numerical linear algebra
Matrices, arrays and operations
Solving linear systems
Computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors
5. Approximation of functions and data
Polynomial interpolation
Linear least squares
5. Iterative procedures
Fixed point iterations
Roots of nonlinear functions