Fortran Programming Language

This book provides an introduction to its latest standard: Fortran 95, the most important language for scientific and engineering computation.

The aim of this book is to introduce the concepts and ideas involved in problem solving with Fortran 77 using an interactive timesharing computer system. The book tries to achieve this using the established practices of structured and modular programming. Two techniques of problem solving, so-called top-down and bottom-up are also introduced.

This guide provides a comprehensive description of the features and implementation of Fortran 77. Ideal as a text from which to learn a second language, or as a reference guide to a first or main language.

Nowadays parallel computers are very common in research facilities as well as companies all over the world and are extensively used for complex computations, like simulations of atomic explosions, folding of proteins or turbulent flows. A challenge in parallel machines is the development of codes able of using the capabilities of the available hardware in order to solve larger problems in less time.

This text provides an introduction to programming and problem solving using the Fortran 95/2003/2008 programming language. This introduction is geared for non computer science majors. As such, this text is not a complete, comprehensive guide to the Fortran 95/2003/2008 programming language. The primary focus is on an introduction to problem solving and algorithm development. As such, many details of the Fortran 95/2003/2008 language are omitted.