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  • Mar 2012

Introduction to Programming with Fortran

With Coverage of Fortran 90, 95, 2003, 2008 and 77

  • Lots of complete worked examples highlighting key language features in small components
  • Material organized in bite sized chunks in a cumulative fashion, where each chapter builds on earlier ones
  • Problems at the end of each chapter graded to test understanding of the concepts and language features introduced

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Overview

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 1-7
  3. Introduction to Problem Solving

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 9-18
  4. Introduction to Programming Languages

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 19-44
  5. Introduction to Programming

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 45-56
  6. Arithmetic

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 57-84
  7. Arrays 1: Some Fundamentals

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 85-97
  8. Arrays 2: Further Examples

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 99-112
  9. Whole Array and Additional Array Features

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 113-130
  10. Output of Results

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 131-154
  11. Reading in Data

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 155-170
  12. Files

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 171-177
  13. Functions

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 179-198
  14. Control Structures

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 199-216
  15. Characters

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 217-229
  16. Complex

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 231-235
  17. Logical

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 237-241
  18. Introduction to Derived Types

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 243-249
  19. An Introduction to Pointers

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 251-259
  20. Introduction to Subroutines

    • Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
    Pages 261-268

About this book

This edition has been revised to stress the use of modern Fortran throughout:

 Key features: lots of clear, simple and complete examples highlighting the,  core language features of modern Fortran including data typing, array processing, control structures functions, subroutines, user defined types and pointers, pinpoints common problems that occur when programming, has sample output from a variety of compilers, expands on the first edition, by introducing modules as soon as the fundamental language features have been covered. Modules are the major organisational feature of Fortran and are the equivalent of classes in other languages, major new features covered in this edition include, introduction to object oriented programming in Fortran introduction to parallel programming in Fortran using MPI, OpenMP and Coarray Fortra, this edition has three target audiences the complete beginner existing Fortran programmers wishing to update their code those with programming experience in other languages

Ian Chivers and Jane Sleightholme are the joint owners of comp-fortran-90 which is a lively forum for the exchange of technical details of the Fortran language.

 Ian is the editor of the ACM Fortran Forum and both Jane and Ian have both been involved in the Fortran standardisation process.

 The authors have been teaching and supporting Fortran and related areas for over 30 years and their latest book reflects the lessons that have been learnt from this.

Authors and Affiliations

  • BRIXTON, London, United Kingdom

    Ian Chivers

  • London, United Kingdom

    Jane Sleightholme

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