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In 1991, a new international standard for FORTRAN was released which contained specifications for a new version of the language known as FORTRAN 90. It provides for dramatic extensions to previous Fortran versions. This book is a comprehensive tutorial to FORTRAN 90 that relies mainly on a large number of short, but complete programming examples to illustrate the differences between the new language and traditional FORTRAN. The author gives thorough explanations of terminology and concepts which were not in general use before the release of the new standard. Readers are assumed to have a working knowledge of one of the earlier versions of FORTRAN, but otherwise no prior knowledge of FORTRAN 90 is assumed. ... Read more

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Excellent, exceptionally well suited for self-study
I have looked at many books on f90. This one excels by -being exceptionally clearly written in a colloquial style that explains the ideas behind the new concepts and is fun reading -explains simple things first and progresses to the more complex issues one at a time -contains only complete code examples that are transparent, easy to grasp, to the point, and illustrative -with this book, the transition from f77 to f90 is painless and very quick -everyone in our group enjoyed the book
weaknesses: -new intrinsic functions are not discussed in detail -few examples for character and I/O handling; probably best suited for people with science background/interest such as myself ... Read more

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Introduction to FORTRAN 90 is part of Prentice Hall'sESource Series, a unique publishing system designed to give professorsoptimal control over their courseware.ESource allows you the freedomto create your own textbook using only the topics necessary for yourclass.The process is simple: on the ESource website, you construct abook by combining any of the chapters from any of the numerous titlesin the series.You can personalize the book even further byintegrating your own material into the text flow.The end product isa professionally formatted text that is molded to fit the exact needsof your class.Of course, any of the ESource books can also beadopted as individual texts, or shrink-wrapped together with othertitles in the series.ESource Series:
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12 Phd's to write this worthless book
Written at a level for 7 year olds. How dumb are our college students, or how dumb are these teachers ? The first chapter talks down to the reader and explains what a byte is ! Then goes on to explain that older verions of FORTRAN exist ! Almost no coverage of the advanced features of F90, although the chapter on recursion is worth reading. Anybody want to buy my copy ? ... Read more

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Fortran remains one of the principal languages used in scientific, numerical and engineering programming and a series of revisions to the standard versions of the language have progressively enhanced its power. The latest standard-Fortran 2003-greatly extends the power of the language, by introducing object-oriented concepts, interoperability with C, better integration with operating systems and many other enhancements.This text details all these new features.Fortran 95/2003 Explained, significantly expands on the second edition of Fortran 90/95 Explained (also publised by Oxford University Press): the opening chapters contain a complete description of the Fortran 95 language and are followed by descriptions of three formally approved extensions; six completely new chapters describe in detail the features that are new in Fortran 2003, but the distinction between the various language levels is kept clear throughout.Authored by the leading experts in the development of the language, this is the only complete and authoritative description of the two languages (Fortran 95 and Fortran 2003).Containing numerous examples, exercises and solutions, and an extensive index, it is highly suitable as both a student textbook and practitioner reference. ... Read more

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fortran 95/2003
I am very satisfied with this book. The cost was excellent compared with new at the book stores.

perfect book for experienced Fortran user
I had used the F90/95 edition for a while before I got this edition. Although it is not easy for a beginner, I would recommend you have it if you wanna go further with Fortran. Many questions you gonna meet are answered inside.

the best on the subject
This book is the best on the subject of Fortran 95/2003, but there's not a lot of competition.It has a specific target audience: practicing computer professionals.Don't pick it up if you are not already familiar with object-oriented programming, derived data types, pointers, etc.This is not the book from which to learn those concepts.

It's a pity that there does not exist a book to bridge the gap between Fortran 77 (which the majority of the Fortran code base uses) and Fortran 95/2003.If you are a Fortran 77 programmer looking to learn Fortran 95/2003, this probably isn't the book for you.If you are a proficient C++ or Java programmer looking to pick up Fortran (there can't be very many of you) then you will find this book very helpful.

Not a good textbook.
Very difficult to read. Assumes no previous knowledge of Fortran, yet does not quite show the reader how to actually write a functional program until late in the book. Chapman's book(s) are much better.

Not for beginners
I have some 20 years experience in coding in Fortran 77, but finally needed to catch up with Fortran 95 and 2003. I have also bought "Fortran 90/95 for Scientists and Engineers" by Stephen Chapman and found that a much better book for beginners in Fortran 95. "Fortran 95/2003 Explained" reads, as other reviewers have noted, like a language reference. There is basically no build-up in this book and I also have the feeling that in earlier Chapters it is expected that you already know what comes in later Chapters. The examples in the book are rarely explanatory to me, they leave me often without a clear understanding of what purpose is served.

For those who want to learn Fortran 95 (even for those who are already fluent in Fortran 77) I would recommend to buy the book by Stephen Chapman instead. If you want a reference manual, "Fortran 95/2003 Explained" will likely serve you well. ... Read more

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Merchant explains the ANSI Fortran 77 standard using efficient and simple writing, while integrating language concepts with concepts of programming style. Each chapter includes a summary, vocabulary list and exercises. This book should be of interest to introductory courses in FORTRAN 77. ... Read more

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I was up and running with Fortran in 5 hours
I needed to learn Fortran quickly and this book helped me to do it in 5 hours flat. Just type in all the worked out examples and you are on your way. The book is also a good reference. ... Read more

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FORTRAN 77 from the ground up
I've written my own and corrected other's FORTRAN IV/66/77 programs for 20+ years now. Purchased in 1988, I still use this book on occasion, as the information presented in it and the examples given I still find useful when writing and debugging code.Meant as a textbook for those new to computing, no assumptions are made concerning the student's knowledge of programming.This leads to a series of fine example programs and problems for the student to solve.The "Follow-up Exercises" slowly transform small programs scattered throughout each chapter, which is the best part of this book.By forcing the student to change/grow existing programs, it gives them the skills needed to do what so many FORTRAN programmers do today:fix and expand other people's old code. ... Read more

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The example books published as part of the Numerical Recipes, Second Edition series are source programs that demonstrate all of the Numerical Recipes subroutines. Each example program contains comments and is prefaced by a short description of how it functions. The books consist of all of the material from the original edition, as well as new material from the Second Edition. They will be valuable for readers who wish to incorporate procedures and subroutines into their own source programs.They are available in both Fortran and C. ... Read more

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Nice to have
This is a short, concise FORTRAN toolbox of standard recipes in computing.This book is nearly entirely source code...if you want toknow more about the mathematics and logic of what these recipes do, you should get the full Numerical Recipes book.

A great recipe
This is really a great book of numerical examples. It teaches you on how to use those "abstract" numerical recipes. From here you will be a good commander of both numerical recipes and numerical programming. You will learn a lot of practical experience. You can not miss it! enjoy it. ... Read more

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Best Seller . . . until Basic hit the market place
__I'm the co-author with the business background. My two other co-authors had academic teaching experience with Fortran and their names appear first in order to market into the academic market place. On the other hand, I learned Fortran from IBM's computer manuals and applied it to everyday data processing on the main-frames of the 1970s. This was the only book of its kind because it integrated Fortran programming into the world of business applications. Fortran was previously noted for its use in scientific or math applications.
__With practical experience, I learned how to write and document Fortran code, whereby my coding looked somewhat like Cobol structure, utilized re-usable routines in-line and from libraries, and had extremely fast execution times. These experiences underlay my passion to share the Fortran secrets with the world -- hence Fortran IV.
__The publisher did not expect the first edition to sell more than the initial press run of 5,000 copies -- but the first and second editions reached a circulation of 100,000 copies, including a Spanish edition which sold in Mexico and South America. Many colleges across the United States used the book as part of the curriculum. Beginning in 1979, a language written by Bill Gates, was marketed: interactive Basic language, and this caused the schools to make the switch to teaching interactive Basic, and away from compiled Fortran. This was also the beginning of an era where one had little concern about the size and speed of applications because one can always buy more or faster computer hardware to make up for bloated and/or inefficient programming code.
__I take responsibility for rewriting the second edition and the its education supplement (which was free from Wiley upon request). The editor, who did not know Fortran at the project's beginning, learned the Fortran language as she edited the manuscript.
__In 2003, the book may be an oddity, but it represents an important part of history. I learned Fortran as a means to an end: analyze voter perception for a grad school marketing project. In 1965, to make the program work, I had to design a routine which expanded the computer's actual 20 kilobytes of memory to behave like 1 megabyte of memory -- about 20 lines of code. As a grad student in the business school, before the age of computer curriculums, I had no idea of my discovery's magnitude. I just shared the knowledge with the professionals in the school's computer center, who were limited by the 20k boundary. Today's operating systems now handle the virtual memory chore.
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This book gives engineers the fundamental theories, equations, and computer programs (including source codes) that provide a ready way to analyze and solve a wide range of process engineering problems.


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Good Basic Chemical Engineering/Fortran book
This book is a great introduction to the use of Fortran for Chemical Engineers.It is somewhat dated but still relevant.I would recommend it as a first book for anyone in modeling in Chemical Engineering

Strictly for chemical engineering
Fortran lives on, as shown by the example source code given in this book. The programs are for chemical engineering applications. They deal at the macroscopic level with such key issues as simulating fluid flow in a reactor.

You should note that none of the programs deal with chemistry, per se. That is, there is no involvement at the microscopic level with the detailed steps in a chemical reaction.

The book is now 9 years old. But the source code has a flavour even older. Procedural, of course. The example programs are not that long, so you won't encounter scaling issues with writing large programs in a procedural fashion, as opposed to object oriented. ... Read more

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Fortran is one of the most widely used programming languages in science and engineering. Fortran 90 replaced the outmoded FORTRAN 77 in 1991 and this recent version of the International Standard enhances this version. It also includes several new features to ensure that Fortran continues to be aligned with High Performance Fortran (HPF) for parallel computer architectures. Fortran 95 Language Guide will serve as a language reference manual for programmers, provide teaching material for introductory courses in Fortran programming, and give help to experienced Fortran programmers migrating to the new standard. Gehrke has provided a comprehensive and easy-to-understand description of the Fortran 95 programming language as defined by the ISO, which will be welcomed by both practitioners and students alike. ... Read more

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Excellent reference
This is an excellent generic Fortran language reference for experienced programmers. Not a tutorial and definitely not for someone just learning programming or for someone looking for specifics of a particular compiler. I give it four stars instead of five only because it would benefit from more code examples - in fact there are almost none. But the language rules are quite completely and concisely described. In combination with the typical compiler User Guide the experienced programmer in any other language will have all he/she needs to know to work in Fortran.

Fortran 95 Language Guide
Just based on its name, as for a programmer, no matter which level you are in now, it is a good handbook when you are working on your programming project. ... Read more

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Using your existing knowledge of Fortran, C++ for FortranProgrammers gets you up and running with C++ quickly. By learning howindividual elements of a Fortran program compare and translate intoC++, this book helps you make a smooth transition to C++ andobject-oriented concepts. Best-selling author and C++ authority, IraPohl, uses his trademark "dissection" technique to illustrate theunderlying structure of programs and help you understand designtrade-offs. Scientific and engineering coding examples are featuredthroughout the text.

The book provides a smooth transition to C++ and object-orientedprogramming for programmers already familiar with Fortran, andincludes C++ to Fortran equivalencies making it easy to move from onelanguage to another. Engineering computations are featured throughout;important scientific types such as complex number, vector andpolynomial are implemented. It also incorporates the proposed ANSI C++Standard including bool, namespaces, and the STL library, and featuresa chapter on the use of STL and efficient generic programming.Allprogram code is fully tested and available on the World Wide Web. ... Read more

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Good book but costly
I was looking for such book five years ago. Now the graphics came down to earth with so many way and computer languages.
I want to congradualte the author for such thought and work. It still useful for many old and old people.

Doesn't live up to its title
First, let me say that this does seem to be a perfectly respectable C++ book.
One could do worse, and it does not seem that knowing Fortran is a prerequisite.

It's the "... For Fortran Programmers" part that is disappointing.I'm a member of the ostensible target demographic -- someone who has programmed for decades off and on in Fortran and is looking to learn the C (/ C++) language -- and this book sounded like exactly what I was looking for.Unfortunately, it did not live up to this expectation.The Fortran related material occupies only the first 20% of the book (plus a brief appendix),essentially the plain-old-C chapters.

The "for Fortran programmers" content is mostly concerned with those areas where there are direct equivalences between the two languages that can be summarized neatly in tables (e.g. Fortran's "double precision" is the same as C's "double").This kind of info is useful, but an experienced Fortran programmer will easily pick it up anyway.When it comes to more complicated issues such as control structures (IF, etc.), the emphasis seems to be to present Fortran equivalents of C structures, rather than the reverse.I guess this could be seen as using the presumed Fortran background to explicate a C language description, but I'd think most Fortran programmers learning C will be thinking the reverse, "I know how to do in Fortran, how do I achieve the same thing in C?"Compounding this, the assumption seems to be that the Fortran programmed in is Fortran 90, which is far from universally adopted (especially with the immense amount of legacy code in use).

Of course, a lot of the C++ language simply has no direct equivalent in Fortran.But if this were really written from the start for Fortran programmers there should be specific discussion showing how to do things that a Fortran programmer finds clumsy (such as matrix manipulation) more smoothly with the "++" part of C++, and the book should use examples drawn from scientific programming (which has been the primary domain of Fortran programmers).

I am not saying this book should be a simple translation manual, but it should start with what the Fortran programmer already knows and build from there, and deal with problems that the Fortran programmer is typically interested in.

In summary, this is a decent C++ book, but the Fortran content seems to be a clumsy afterthought, grafted on for marketing reasons.

A Great Dissappointment
The "Book Description" in the Amazon.com webpage is a gross overstatement. At most, 10 pages of the book are dedicated to an extremely brief address of how to convert or translate a Fortran 90 program to C++, which falls so far short of what is required that words fail me. Fortunately, I can return the book to source with refund. It does not deserve even a 1 star rating.

A disappointing book
This is the only text I know of that tries to take the Fortran programmer directly into C++.This attempt was a poor effort at best.Ira's other book C++ for C Programmers was highly recommended to me to learn C++.Being a Fortran programmer and not a C programmer, I thought Ira would have made this book at a comparable level.Instead he used the C++ for C Programmers text with a few changes for Fortran syntax.This shows a minimal effort on Ira's part, very disappointing!The reader of this book needs a good background in C to understand it.And if your C background is good, get the C++ for C Programmers book.C++ for Fortran Programmers should be rewritten for programmers with only a Fortran background as the title indicates.Then, I believe this text could fill a unique and important gap in the literature.A second issue I have with this text is Ira's writing style.He writes at a high level thus you need to be able to read at that level.That's all fine, but then he needs to be a competent writer of the English language.Ira's technical writing fails miserably here (showing short, weak examples in no way makes up for this!).My advice for Fortran only programmers is get a short introductory book on C and then get a short (introductory?) book on C++.Your basic programming skills should easily cover anything else.Ira should have done something like this when he wrote the book.

Very poorly written ... very few examples
This book was a complete waste of money.I'm lucky that I was able to return the book for a full refund.THe book is just poorly written with very few examples.Not worth your time. ... Read more

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FORTRAN is a programming language that has specific importance in the scientific/engineering research community. This book is designed as a quick reference for programmers and developers. ... Read more

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Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications is the only book that shows developers how to create Windows applications using Visual Fortran software. It complements Digital Press's successful reference, the Digital Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide. Lawrence details development methods and techniques for creating Fortran applications for Windows, the platform upon which developers can use Compaq Visual Fortran (CVF; to be Intel Visual Fortran in the future) to create applications.

The book teaches CVF programming progressively, beginning with simple tasks and building up to writing professional-level Win32 applications. Readers will learn about the powerful new CVF graphical user interface, as well as the intricacies of Windows development from a CVF perspective. They can master QuickWin, the Win32 APIs including multiple document interfaces, and Open GL with 3D and interactive graphics.


Provides practical, step-by-step instructions for developing Visual Fortran applications
Only tutorial text for Compaq Visual Fortran (CVF)
Doesn't require the programmer to learn C or C++ ... Read more

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The ONLY book that has it all
I started learning Fortran about a month ago and it was impossible to find documentation on how to build GUIs.Reading the MSN Library helped with background info, but didn't explain how to use anything with Fortran.This is the ONLY resource I could find that has complete explanations for making GUIs as nice as you want, depending on the time you put in.It is certainly not for someone without some background knowledge of windows and GUI elements and controls, but this book will teach you everything you need if you can follow it and work with the examples.

Using Compaq Visual Fortran
To really understand the book (Compaq Visual Fortran) one must use the Fortran programming examples with the book (Companion Site )! I think the author did a very good job is making one dig out the meat of the text. I would also get the Digital Visual Fortran Programmers Guide (Michael Etzel and Karen Dickinson) if you are serious about the above subject matter.

WHAT A CRUMMY BOOK!!
You'll be confused by page 15.The author makes no attempt to teach windows programming for Fortran in a way anyone can understand.He seems to be highly impressed with his own sophisticated knowledge and wants all of us to know how smart he is.Unfortunately that doesn't do any good for us Fortran programmers who want to learn how to build Windows applications.The author will show us examples that combine dozens of different subject he (briefly) touched on in the text rather than an example that shows one or just a few concepts.It's confusing as hell.Unfortunately, this is probably the only book we'll ever get on building Fortran programs for Windows since so few people are interested in doing such a thing.Consequently the author will continue to make money of this miserable work.CAN ANY OF YOU OUT THERE WRITE A BETTER BOOK? PLEASE!

A great investment
For those die-hard Fortran programmers with no prior Windows programming experience, such as myself, this book is the perfect accompaniment to the CVF on-line programmers' guide and answers many of the lingering questions you may have after working through the CVF sample code. The great thing about this book is that all the examples discussed have the code freely available from the publisher's website, so that you can work through the concepts step-by-step in the book and then examine the nitty-gritty from the downloaded resources. Along-side Metcalf and Reid's "Fortran 90/95 explained", Norman Lawrence's "Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications" is definintely one of my most valuable reference texts. Get the most out of your Visual Fortran software and stick this book in a prominent position on your shelf!

Yes, buy it.
Fortran is a very elegant mathematical developing language with periodical updates (Fortran 55, 66, 77, 88 but labeled 90/95, and now still waiting for ANSI 99 which will probably be labeled 2002). You don't need a whole library to grasp its possibilities and functions, while the mathematical and statistical libraries are incomparable. But in most manuals the use of Windows and graphics are underexposed, whereas many Fortran solutions for graphics and some for Windows exist to choose from.

This is where Norman Lawrence comes in. I bought the latest print (C)2002. Not a general Fortran tutorial, but covering the necessary subjects to start immediately with Compaq Visual Fortran graphics and Windows, and with a nice Fortran programming style even a Guy-Like-Me could not improve too much (!!!).All sources available on the companion Web sites (Publisher, please pack these 90 separate files together).

A rare must in the Fortran collection, as was the earlier Jones & Crabtree: Fortran Tools 1988 ISBN 0471619760 for string manipulation, file-i/o, lexical analysis in Fortran, a candidate for a reprint. ... Read more

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This text has been fully revised to meet the needs of the programmers of the 1990s, including extensive coverage of the Fortran 90 standard, with special emphasis on engineering and science applications. ... Read more

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An easy-to-use handbook for experienced programmers and scientists, this highly readable survey offers a concise but thorough description of the whole of Fortran 77, including practical advice on program portability, design, testing and documentation.The book benefits from the author's long association with the Fortran standardization committee (X3J3), and his extensive experience with large-scale processing in high-energy physics.Since Fortran 77 is the only practical choice for sizable scientific numerical and engineering applications, this will be an invaluable handbook for computer scientists working with engineers and physicists engaged in large-scale computation. ... Read more

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The introduction of the Fortran 90 standard is the first significant change in the Fortran language in over 20 years. this book is designed for anyone wanting to learn Fortran for the first time or or a programmer who needs to upgrade from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90.

Employing a practical, problem-based approach this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the language. More experienced programmers will find it a useful update to the new standard and will benefit from the emphasis on science and engineering applications. ... Read more

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A fantastic book for renewing oneself to Fortran 90
It has been many years since I did Fortran programming, but once I decided to get involved for professional reasons, this was an excellent choice.

The author slowly and extremely methodically exposes the readerto the Fortran 90 language with what I will coin "computationalmotivation."Simply stated, just when the chapter gets you thinkingabout "how to...", BANG, Brian Hahn begins to address that veryissue with source code and explanations!I cannot say enough about thisbook for the beginner or intermediate level Fortran programmer.Please, doyourself an enormous favor if you are interested in using this extremelypowerful (and fairly simple!) numerical language for engineering, science,applied mathematics and even financials...take a look at this text on thesubject!! ... Read more