Illustrating FORTRAN [Paperback]

This book gives an excellent introduction to standard Fortran.From its spiral binding to its unique calligraphy and novel illustrations, this book is designed to be actively used and enjoyed. It will serves as a handy reference for those who know the language or as a self-teaching course for those without programming experience.From its spiral binding to its unique calligraphy and novel illustrations, this book is designed to be actively used and enjoyed. It will serves as a handy reference for those who know the language or as a self-teaching course for those without programming experience.Fortran is a computer language that has been around for a quarter of a century, and is still much used despite predictions throughout its life that it would be replaced by more elegant languages. But Fortran is still the only language in which it is possible to write truly portable programs. Using his own special formula, Donald Alcock now does for Fortran what he did for BASIC in his earlier book, Illustrating BASIC. The Fortran described and illustrated is that defined by the American National Standards Institute in 1966 but with allusions to the same Institute's standard published in 1978. For both the person who is new to computers and programming, and the person who has met only BASIC before, this book will give an excellent introduction to standard Fortran; it also provides a reference manual for the language.Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Structure; 3. Elements of Fortran; 4. Control within a program unit; 5. Arrays; 6. Simple functions; 7. Function and subroutine subprograms; 8. Common storage; 9. Initialization; 10. Input output; 11. Files; 12. More worked examples; Bibliography; Index.