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Part I. Numerical Software: 1. Why numerical software?; 2. Scientificcomputation and numerical analysis; 3. Priorities; 4. Famous disasters; 5.Exercises; Part II. Developing Software: 6. Basics of computer organization;7. Software design; 8. Modularity and all that; 9. Data structures; 10.Design for testing and debugging; 11. Exercises; Part III. Efficiency inTime, Efficiency in Memory: 12. Be algorithm aware; 13. Computer architectureand efficiency; 14. Global vs. local optimization; 15. Grabbing memory whenyou need it; 16. Memory bugs and leaks; Part IV. Tools: 17. Sources ofscientific software; 18. Unix tools; 19. Cubic spline function library; 20.Multigrid algorithms; Appendix A: review of vectors and matrices; Appendix B:trademarks; Bibliography; Index.