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1. Introduction to Programming with Fortran: with coverage of Fortran 90, 95, 2003 and 77 by Jane Sleightholme | |
Paperback: 592
Pages
(2008-12-31)
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Editorial Review Product Description An Introduction to Programming with Fortran is a comprehensive introduction to Fortran, and is essential to the complete beginner who wants to learn the fundamentals of programming using a modern, powerful and expressive language; as well as those wanting to update their programming skills by making the move from earlier versions of Fortran. It contains lots of clear and simple examples highlighting the key language features of the most recent versions of Fortran – Fortran 2003, 95 and 90. The authors also provide examples based on ISO TR 15580 and ISO TR 15581 as these are quite widely supported as well and cover the ISO TR on Enhanced Modules, which is of particular importance to large code suites. The examples used throughout the book highlight common problems that occur when programming, and give a solution in Fortran, producing a very effective, hands-on approach. Details of a variety of internet-based sources are also included, which will prove invaluable to those seeking further information and support. Customer Reviews (6)
Only appropriate for someone who has never programmed anything
Hate it
Not as advertised
Excellent
Good introduction to FORTRAN |
2. Fortran 90 Programming (International Computer Science Series) by T.M.R. Ellis, Ivor R. Phillips, Thomas M. Lahey | |
Paperback: 848
Pages
(1994-05-31)
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The only book you may need for F90
Good explanations but too pedantic
excellent book for learning new features of fortran 90
A very carefully written textbook and reference. |
3. Guide to Fortran 2003 Programming by Walter S. Brainerd | |
Hardcover: 357
Pages
(2009-07-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description This concise, accessible, and easy-to-read guide introduces the most important features of Fortran 03. Features: presents a complete discussion of all the basic features needed to write complete Fortran programs; makes extensive use of examples and case studies; provides a detailed exploration of control constructs, modules, procedures, arrays, character strings, data structures and derived types, pointer variables, and object-oriented programming; introduces the topic of modules as the framework for organizing data and procedures for a Fortran program; investigates the excellent input/output facilities available in Fortran; includes appendices listing the many intrinsic procedures and providing a brief informal syntax specification for the language; supplies simple problems throughout the book. This indispensable textbook provides a tutorial for anyone who wants to learn Fortran 03, and is eminently suitable as a reference for professionals. |
4. Fortran 77: Principles of Programming by Jerrold L. Wagener | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(1980-01)
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5. Schaum's Outline of Programming With Fortran 77 (Schaum's Outline Series) by Willam Mayo, Martin Cwiakala | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(1994-09-01)
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Schaum's Programming with Fortran 77
Good For Basics
Great for programmers who are new to Fortran
Best for starters!!
Very good book |
6. Fundamentals of Engineering Programming with C and Fortran by Harley R. Myler | |
Hardcover: 223
Pages
(1998-07-13)
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fortran |
7. Computing for Scientists: Principles of Programming with Fortran 90 and C++ by R. J. Barlow, A. R. Barnett, AR Barnett | |
Paperback: 292
Pages
(1998-09-09)
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Pithy Treatment of a Voluminous Subject One of the problems that I faced was lack of a good introductory text on programming that would be relevant to an applied scientist. Most introductory programming books appear to be written for someone who intends to be a computer scientist, or even worse, rather than teaching language-independent skills, they try instead to teach you one programming language. As anyone knows who has ever browsed the computer section of their local bookstore or even here on Amazon, the number of books available on the topic of programming is enormous, to say the least. I was pleasantly surprised when I came across this book at a local electronics store. For the time being, I am going to refer to it as a good starting point for any scientist who wishes to enhance his/her programming skills. Barlow and Barnett cover many of the topics that I consider essential when learning any programming language, such as data types, operators, conditional statements, looping constructs, etc. Furthermore, he even covers important concepts like accessing memory (e.g. pointers in C++), state machines, abstraction, and object-oriented techniques. I was very happy to see the authors stress the importance of striving for ANSI compliant code. For a book that was published in 1998, I was very impressed to see a section on template programming with C++. Clearly, Barlow and Barnett are very good at recognizing emerging trends.Furthermore, they are equally adept at explaining difficult concepts in a lucid way. Towards the end of the book, the authors' physics slant is evident by the section on numerical analysis, but the treatment is great, since it exemplifies how programming can be used for solving computationally intensive tasks that have physical significance. Although this book on programming is geared towards scientists, it really would serve as a nice introduction to programming for any discipline. Although Fortran's popularity is very low outside of engineering, the juxtaposition of C++ with Fortran was a very nice touch, as it really allows one to look past language specific features in order to see generic programming concepts. Computer languages, like spoken languages, are such that, the first one is hardest to learn, but with each one you learn, the process of learning the next one becomes successively easier, and authors' use of two languages in one book really exemplifies this concept. This book does not aim to teach you either C++ or Fortran, although it does point out some real pitfalls (e.g. in C++, x = a[i] + i++) in each language. Instead, the authors gives you a great foundation, from which you will be able learn generic programming concepts, as well as evaluate programming languages, so that in the future, you should be able to select one that is appropriate for your task at hand. Finally, they authors give great examples of using programming technologies to solve problems of a scientific nature, and he is able to accomplish in less than 300 pages what most books fail to do in three to four times that amount.
unorthodox but very nice introduction to programming However, what sets this textbook apart from others is that it employs two languages (i.e. Fortran and C++), instead of one, to teach the same old material.And this has some interesting charasteristics.The authors has presented the material in a comparative way so that the student has the chance to see, very clearly, the relative merits of each language.For example, when they introduce arrays you will see the ease of Fortran in dealing with them. On the other hand, when object oriented programming is presented, C++'s superiority becomes apparent for that purpose.By seeing two languages side by side, one can also discern the fundamentals from language specific rules. I'm familiar with Fortran and it has been a while since I took my first course in programming but this textbook has taught me quite a lot of things.If you know one of the languages, it might still make sense to buy it.You will appreciate your language better and will find what the other language does better.By the way, the book doesn't teach about mixed language programming. ... Read more |
8. FORTRAN 77 for Engineers and Scientists with an Introduction to FORTRAN 90 (4th Edition) by Larry Nyhoff, Sanford Leestma | |
Paperback: 884
Pages
(1996-01-07)
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Good
Gives good examples of real world applications
Unacceptable printing.
Good and Solid Presentation of the FORTRAN language |
9. Introduction to FORTRAN 90 for Engineers and Scientists by Larry R. Nyhoff, Sanford Leestma | |
Paperback: 411
Pages
(1996-09-23)
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This Book is not for Beginners
very bad
Print quality; reference value
A Good Introduction -- But Nothing More
Exactly what I needed |
10. Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77: The Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press, Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling | |
Hardcover: 933
Pages
(1992-09-25)
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It's Still On My Top Shelf
It may be a pig, but it's OUR pig.
Outstanding reference book on numerical algorithms
Proprietary source the Achilles' heel for non-students The authors have certainly done a good job assimilating a lot of material. Since other reviewers have done well to highlight the importance and utility of this landmark book, there is no need to repeat those sentiments here. However, to this title's detriment, the authors consider their book to be a proprietary library of source code more valuable than the explanatory text discussing it (one can in fact download the text on-line though it's hardly worth the hassle). This perception is ironic since the authors confess that "the lineage of many programs in common circulation is often unclear" (p.xviii), and many details ofpresentation, ideas, and algorithms are clearly "borrowed" from other excellent (some now out-of-print) numerical methods books or journals. I often wondered why NR routines occasionally adopted bizarre and/or obviously inefficient programming structures - over time I decided that this was probably done to make these algorithms appear as so not to clearly violate other published material. As a student, NR's legal disclaimers regarding derivative works (p.xvi) never bothered me and I was willing to overlook the sometimes unpolished source code insofar as it functioned properly. However, as a professional I now find the lack of fair-use provisions on the uncompiled source way too restrictive to rely on these routines in good conscience (I have to buy another textbook or license for every soft copy or machine upon which the source code resides!). I suspect this policy ultimately hurts NR's textbook sales: it would be nice to able to use and pass along the source code between professional colleagues without restriction because most would certainly buy (if they don't already own) the textbook to understand what the source does (just as I did). Source code used in scientific programming is practically worthless without proper documentation, and there's no better documentation than a full length textbook! I have since expanded my numerical methods library to other references supporting true public-domain codes. With an expanded basis of comparison, I regret to say that I am becoming less and less impressed with NR's implementations and explanations. I am finding many of NR's algorithms to be inefficient or unnecessarily approximate, and - on rare occasion - buggy. There have been quite a few bugs uncovered over the years, and the NR web site has done a good job of keeping track of them (although I know of at least one bug uncorrected by NR to this day). This book is excellent for students wanting a good reference for quick and dirty types of analyses or scientific computing. Professional programmers, scientists, engineers, specialists or analysts performing software development for laboratory or scientific research would be well advised to reference this title, but ultimately they will likely need to rely other resources if they require efficient and/or unrestricted (public-domain) source codes for their work. (P.S. - A reviewer elsewhere noted that the "quality of the binding was terrible" and I've also found this to be the case. My hardcover is literally had to be taped on after a few years of use.)
A Useful Tool for Programmers, Researchers, and Students There is also a CD available that has the codes already written and ready to go.I prefer to type it in on my own, or just make my own because it gives a better udnerstanding of what the code is doing.The biggest turn-off for me is that some codes have subroutines upon subroutines which can make things a mess. All around a useful tool for programmers, researchers, and students. ... Read more |
11. Classical Fortran: Programming for Engineering and Scientific Applications, Second Edition by Michael Kupferschmid | |
Hardcover: 576
Pages
(2009-01-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description Classical FORTRAN: Programming for Engineering and Scientific Applications, Second Edition teaches how to write programs in the Classical dialect of FORTRAN, the original and still most widely recognized language for numerical computing. This edition retains the conversational style of the original, along with its simple, carefully chosen subset language and its focus on floating-point calculations. New to the Second Edition With numerous updates and revisions throughout, this second edition continues to use case studies and examples to introduce the language elements and design skills needed to write graceful, correct, and efficient programs for real engineering and scientific applications. After reading this book, students will know what statements to use and where as well as why to avoid the others, helping them become expert FORTRAN programmers. Customer Reviews (2)
Excellent book for the beginning Fortran programmer
how about newer versions of Fortran? |
12. Fortran 77 for Engineers and Scientists by Larry Nyhoff, Sanford Leestma | |
Paperback: 183
Pages
(1992-01)
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13. Fortran 90/95 Explained by Michael Metcalf, John K. Reid | |
Paperback: 360
Pages
(1999-08-26)
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No Simple Explainations I learn by looking at other people's coding and interpreting and investigating.This book does not lend itself very well to that type of method.Maybe it works for pure programmers, but I am an engineer and need results quickly.I hope this review helps you.
Concentrated Acid for FORTRAN 95 One example of the many gold nuggets I found in this title that I could find mentioned almost nowhere else:Instead of declaring a function as EXTERNAL so that it may be used as an actual argument in a procedure reference, Metcalf and Reid recommend using an interface block in the scope of the procedure reference using the actual function name, and a similar interface block in the referenced procedure (using the dummy argument procedure name), thereby allowing the compiler to envoke all the checking associated with explicit interfaces.Using the EXTERNAL attribute for this scenario does not allow that depth of checking, and, indeed, Chapman makes it seem as if the EXTERNAL statement is required to pass a function name as an actual argument.Adam's et al write that the use of interface blocks makes this use of EXTERNAL effectively obsolescent (p 473). I did have one problem with my edition of "FORTRAN 90/95 Explained", the index was bound incorrectly (the pages were out of sequence).
Fortran 90/95 Explained
Essential reference book This book is the essential reference.Once you learn Fortran, this is the book to turn to when youneed to know the details of the language. I find myself using this bookover and over again for my research project.It's short, concise,absolutely accurate and complete, making it the perfect book to have rightnext to your keyboard. In response to the 1 star review, this is _not_the book to learn the language from if you know nothing about Fortran, butit would be a serious mistake not to stock your bookshelf with this gem ofa book.
The first F90 book I reach for I have successfully used this book for teaching, but only to experienced Fortran 77 programmers eager to learn about the new language, and with the aid of highly structured lectures and supervised computer tutorial sessions.I would not recommend it for student self study. As anexperienced programmer, what I most like about this book is that I can look up a term in the index, be referred to a small number of entries in the text, and rest assured that in those few pages I have all the information I require on that topic.Other Fortran books I have read frequently do not document, or pay scant regard to, important features of the language such as optional arguments to I/O statements orgenericfunction disambiguation. If I were only allowed to keep just one Fortran90 text book this wouldbe the one. ... Read more |
14. Object-Oriented Programming via Fortran 90/95 by Ed Akin | |
Paperback: 362
Pages
(2003-01-13)
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book contains lots of resources, but its usefulness is limited
Limited Usefulness The above occupies about a third of the book.Another third consists of elementary material that is not particularly relevant even to that audience, such as memory management, linked lists, and linear algebra.Object orientation is mentioned only peripherally in that material. The last third consists of appendices that are mostly padding.There are language tables that are available in the manual with any compiler, and source code which repeats with variations examples in the main text.
This Book Breathes New Life Into Fortran What I like most is that the author contrasts implementation details between Fortran, C++, and MATLAB to futher enrich the topics being discussed.Obviously, with this style, the author knows his audience (engineers and scientists). I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK! ... Read more |
15. FORTRAN 90 for Engineers and Scientists by Larry Nyhoff, Sanford Leestma | |
Paperback: 1071
Pages
(1996-09-20)
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good condition and the price was right.
A GREAT book for beginners! |
16. Digital Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide (HP Technologies) by Michael Etzel Technical Writer with Digital Visual Fortran groupDigital Equipment CorporationNashuaNH, Karen Dickinson | |
Paperback: 776
Pages
(1999-04-27)
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17. Fortran 95 by M Counihan | |
Paperback: 418
Pages
(1996-10-24)
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great |
18. Computational Physics: Fortran Version by Steven E. Koonin | |
Paperback: 656
Pages
(1998-08-12)
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19. Fortran 95 Handbook (Scientific and Engineering Computation) by Jeanne C. Adams, Walter S. Brainerd, Jeanne T. Martin, Brian T. Smith, Jerrold L. Wagener | |
Paperback: 723
Pages
(1997-09-25)
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horrible
Complete language reference, but not for rookies If you're new to programming and you wish to learn FORTRAN, don't buy this book. You cannot learn the language from it, unless you already have a lot of programming experience in F77 or other languages.If you want to know all the capabilities and limitations of F95, or if you're going to write an F95 compiler, this book has got to be the number one book on your wishlist.
Useful, but needed information hard to find The new syntax for Fortran90/95 is fairly straightforward.I need to no how the new elements of thelanguage inter-relate.For example, when assumed shape arrays are used ina subroutine, an interface definition is required.I tried reading thisbook before attempting this and could not find the requirement.Even afterlearning this experimentally and from another book, I still can't locatethe requirement in this book.I have had similar experiences with othersyntactical inter-relationships. This book contains a lot of informationon Fortran 90/95, but I can't recommend it either as a tutorial or as anadvanced reference.Unfortunately, there are no other good alternatives inprint and this may be the best of the bunch.
A thorough reference to Fortran 95. |
20. A FORTRAN Coloring Book by Roger Kaufman | |
Paperback: 294
Pages
(1978-04-15)
list price: US$9.95 Isbn: 0262610264 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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In the Beginning....
One of the best entertaining textbooks.
Too bad it really isn't a coloring book... |
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