The examples produce simple results with the aim of providing building blocks for application oriented codes.
The book is directed at graduate students and researchers who create computer code to visualise their data.
Ross Maloney has been around computers for over 50 years. He has worked with log tables, slide rules, hand calculators, mainframes, mini computers, micro computers, to today's workstations. He holds bachelors and master degrees in engineering and mathematics from UWA and WAIT, and a PhD in computing science from Murdoch University. For over two decades he worked in government but is now in private practice. He has tutored and lectured undergraduates in computer science over a 10 year period. His current research interests are in application of visualisation and parallel processing to text documents and applied physical science.