Introduction to Engineering and Scientific Computing with Python

"As more and more engineering departments, and companies choose to use Python, this book provides an essential introduction to this open-source, free to use language. Expressly designed to support first-year engineering students, this book covers engineering and scientific calculations, Python basics and structured programming. Based on extensive teaching experience, the text uses practical problem solving as a vehicle to teach Python as a programming language. By learning computing fundamentals, in an engaging and hands-on manner, it enables the reader to apply engineering and scientific methods to Python, focusing this general language to the needs of engineers and the problems they are required to solve on a daily basis. Rather than inundating students with complex terminology, the book.