DescriptionDefinitely, the scope of programming is very broad and encompasses many topics. This book therefore selects those portions of the subject which present a logical and coherent body of knowledge for classroom presentation, self study and professional practice.As programmer knows, a good program is virtually cash-proof. Error-checking must be done for every action that may fail and appropriate error messages must be given to the user. Unfortunately, good error-checking requires a lot of extra program codes. For the programmer working on his next magnum opus, this is all just part of the game. But for the author writing a programming book, this extra code has different implications. Thus, the basic thrust of this book is to substantially improve the productivity of modelers and greatly expand the extent and usefulness of mathematical programming applications in policy analysis and decision making.
