FORTRAN BASICS HOW TO

Fortran 95 is a revised version of Fortran 90 which is expected to be approved by ANSI soon (1996). The most common Fortran version today is still Fortran 77, although Fortran 90 is growing in popularity. By convention, a Fortran version is denoted by the last two digits of the year the standard was proposed. The work on Fortran started in the 1950's at IBM and there have been many versions since. Fortran was the first ever high-level programming languages. However, following the current trend to only capitalize the first letter in acronyms, we will call it Fortran. Fortran is an acronym for FORmula TRANslation, and was originally capitalized as FORTRAN. What is Fortran? Fortran is a general purpose programming language, mainly intended for mathematical computations in e.g. Click here for comments on the modifications.Дў. Terry for use at Highland High School with the BCFORTRAN77 compiler for MSDOS. This tutorial has been modified by Steven H. Copyright В© 1996, 1995 by Stanford University. Permission to use this tutorial for educational and other non-commercial purposes is granted provided all author and copyright information is retained. This tutorial was designed to be used in the course SCCM-001-F: Introduction to Fortran at Stanford University, 1996. Van Loan, published by SIAM (unfortunately this book is out of print). The outline of this tutorial was inspired by the excellent book 'Handbook for Matrix Computations' by T.F. The presentation focuses on scientific computations, mainly linear algebra. It is not a complete reference! Many details have been omitted. Preface The goal of this Fortran tutorial is to give a quick introduction to the most common features of the Fortran 77 programming language. Modifications Copyright В© 1997 by Steven H. Click here for comments on the modifications.

FORTRAN BASICS HOW TO

Preface What is Fortran? Fortran basics How to use Fortran with BCFORTRAN77 on MSDOS systems Variables, declarations, and types Expressions and assignment Logical expressions The if statements Loops Arrays Subprograms Simple input and output Format statements File I/O Arrays in subprograms Common blocks data and block data Programming style Debugging Main features of Fortran 90 Fortran resources on the Web Numerical Software o BLAS o LAPACK o How can I find what I need?Д¬opyright В© 1995 by Stanford University. YouвЂ™ll come away with solid foundational training in Fortran, able to understand Fortran best practices, and aware of what exactly makes it an excellent choice for high-performance computing.Fortran 77 1. YouвЂ™ll learn what control flow statements are, all about file I/O, and see how Fortran interacts with numerical libraries such as BLAS and LAPACK. Identify the various numerical data types in Fortran (including user-defined types), examine character data and logical data, and delve into functions and subroutines. Explore data types and scientific computing libraries This includes how to use object-oriented programming to design efficient and maintainable code, and being aware of potential correctness and performance pitfalls. Learn how to use Fortran to solve numerical problemsДЄlongside computing experts at the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), youвЂ™ll get the chance to understand how to use modern programming paradigms to solve numerical problems. On this course, youвЂ™ll discover how to express your numerical problems as a Fortran program, exploring the power and versatility of this popular programming language. Fortran is a programming language that has been designed for scientific computing, allowing users to naturally express numerical problems.