3 Credit hours (3 h lectures). Introduction to strategies in problem solving and mathematical modeling; Understanding flowcharts and how to write computer source codes; Number system representation and machine epsilon; Round-off and truncation errors; Review of Taylor series; Error analysis; Linear system of equations; Non-linear equations; Gauss elimination and iterative methods; Curve fitting and least squares interpolation; Spline interpolation; Numerical integration; Integration of equations; Numerical differentiation; Ordinary differential equations.