Classical FORTRAN: Programming for Engineering and Scientific Applications

by Michael Kupferschmid

Classical FORTRAN is a college text, self-study guide, and reference about computer programming for numerical calculations. The book features a conversational, classroom-proven style that is easy to read and contains numerous case studies and examples. The author provides practical advice on program design, documentation, and coding style and unusually detailed coverage of floating-point arithmetic. He thoroughly discusses performance measurement and optimization and introduces parallel processing using MPI, FORTRAN-90, High Performance FORTRAN, and vector processing. The author also gives expert advice on dealing with troublesome legacy codes.

Genres: Programming

760 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2002

Reviews

[Alvaro Tejada Galindo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok...the book is not bad in itself...but I must confess that I basically skip through most of it...I have read the Fortran95 manual and that gave me all the Fortran knowledge that I required...so most of the things in this book...I knew already...also, it has a lot of explanations that I didn't bother to fully read and it provides a lot of examples but then again...I know Fortran so they didn't really add too much to my knowledge...maybe...I this was my first Fortran book ever I would give it a better rating...but it's not...so...that's it...

Nice book if you read it first...no so nice if you have read other Fortran books before...

[Nathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok man, this book has the best introduction I've ever read.