Software Recipes

This text describes a collection of compact, efficient, and effective software scripts. These code tools can be deployed in several forms, including C, VBA, and Python, to perform a variety of common computing tasks. This text differs from the classic text, Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing by Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery, in both form and detail. While the title of this classic text (Numerical Recipes) might sound like a collection of small codes, it is actually a complete volume on numerical methods. I have already written several texts on that larger and more detailed subject, which will not be repeated here. To utilize the material in this text, locate the chapter describing the desired task, copy the code therein, and paste it into your application or spreadsheet.