How to bring the physical world into the virtual world. — Why Learn about Seismic Processing? The answer is simple: there is a high demand in GIS fields (such as oil and gas) for seismic processing software! With the world relying more and more on fossil fuels, the need to efficiently find these valuable ‘treasures’ below the Earth’s surface has increased substantially. …

Data Types, Memory Management, and Error Handling — Introduction C is a low level programming language which allows the programmer to code more closely to computer language. This is why C is a little more hands on when it comes to its data types, memory management, and error handling. Unlike JAVA, C does not have functions that automatically catch…

Who, What, When, Where, Why, How? — A Brief History C is a low programming language that has been around since 1972. It was developed by a man named Dennis M. Ritchie, and first used on the DEC PDP-11 computer (which was first produced in 1968). One of the first publicly available descriptions of C was released by Ritchie and…