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This is an english translation of the course of the University of Paris 6, entitled "CALCUL SCIENTIFIQUE EN C++" and given by Dominique Bernardi  and Olivier Pironneau. It is on the web, in French since February 1997. It is part of a new experience for teaching C++ and Numerical Analysis. This English translation is incomplete. The following books cover more or less the content of the course:

• - introduction to Scientific Computing for engineers by B. Lucquin and O. Pironneau (Wiley 98)
• - G. Buzzi-Ferrari: Scientific C++ (Addison-Wesley 1993) or
• - B. Stroutrupp: The C++ programming language.

This html file has been prepared with latex2html, the LateX or postscript file can be sent on request by email to pironnea@asci.fr. The French html files are in the infosci

The course consists in one lesson per week and a compulsory exercice (a C++ program in general) which must be sent to the professor for check and correction.