There is a required book for this course (it may not be in the bookstore yet; an announcement will be made when it arrives):

Chaotic Dynamics: an introduction, 2nd edition (1996),
G. L. Baker and J. P. Gollub, Cambridge University Press.

Programming and Numerical Methods Books

"Numerical Recipes in C", Press, Flannery, Teukolsky, & Vettering, Cambridge University Press.

This book has some useful numerical algorithms and discussions of these algorithms. Much of the code is not state of the art, and the array indexing is contrary to usual conventions. We will cover many fewer topics than are covered in this book.

"C - A Reference Manual", Harrison & Steele, Prentice-Hall.

A very useful reference manual for the C language, if you need it. Not an introductory book.

"Mathematica", Wolfram, Addison-Wesley.

At SU, we seem to have Mathematica v2.2.2. Now v3.0 is out, and the bookstores all have books on 3.0. During this transition, you might hold off on buying a book.

Java books.

There are many; I'm not going to recommend one.

Educational Web Sites

Paul Coddington's pages.

These pages, located at NPAC, have useful lecture notes. Dr. Coddington's research pages include links to his research on random number generators among other things.

CSEP (Computational Science Education Project).

Mostly more advanced, but a few introductory exercises. May not be maintained any more? Again, a reference to random number generators.

UCES (Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences) Project

A collection of software and projects. Of particular interest in this course is the Monte-Carlo module .