Mathcad
was developed as some program tool, which is alternative traditional
programming languages. Many specialists in concrete area of knowledge (physics,
chemistry, biology, mechanical engineering and so on and etc.) as well as some
schoolboys and students could not use computer efficiently because of difficulties
in mastering programming languages. Mathcad allows to solve numerous
scientific, technical and engineering and educational problems without using
programming languages.
At present time the situation has cardinally
changed. Beginning study their future profile specialities, as rule many
students know one of the programming languages rather well and they are ready
to solve their problems with the help of already investigated programming
tools. In this case Mathcad becomes as if unnecessary. Moreover there is a
number of properties of Mathcad, which allow it not only «to live» but also to
gain new admirers even among aces of programming.
Point is that that Mathcad allows to speed up a
few times more the process of problem statement and its solution. Such spurt
was observed when we turned from work in computer codes to work with the
programming languages of high level (fortran, Pascal, BASIC and etc.). When you
turn from work with these languages to work with Mathcad then unnecessary link
as programmer will not appear between specialist and computer.
The main point of zero tip of the book: even if you are
acquainted with programming languages rather well it is worth to use Mathcad at
least at the stage of the formation and the debugging of a mathematical model.
The collective of developers that the author of the book manages developed and
promote the packages of the program которым руководит автор этой книги, создал и
довольно успешно продвигает на рынке пакет программ
WaterSteamPro™ in the market rather successfully. This package is assigned for
calculation heat-transfer properties of water and water steam (see http://twt.mpei.ac.ru/orlov/watersteampro/ru/index.htm).
The final version of the package was written and compiled using the programming
language Visual C++. Nothing has come of the project without prior analysis of
formulas and algorithms in Mathcad.