Introduction to digital computers, hardware and software organization. Programming fundamentals. Algorithms and control structures. Computer communication. Spreadsheets for problem solving, plotting, fitting data, building new functions, and making iterations and loops. Problem solution, plotting, and creating complex programs in an engineering prototyping programming environment. Elementary numerical methods (e.g., Taylor-series summations, roots of equations, roots of polynomials, systems of linear and nonlinear algebraic equations, integration). Applications in nanotechnology engineering. [Offered: F] Prereq: 1A Nanotechnology Engineering students. Antireq: CHE 121, CIVE 121, CS 115, 123, 134, 135, 145, ECE 150, GENE 121, PHYS 139, SYDE 121
