Introduction to Fortran Programming

Overview

This course aims to introduce a subset of the scientific programming language Fortran so that users have the building blocks to be able to write well structured, readable and portable programs. The course is given as a mixture of lectures and practicals during which users gain experience of developing and running programs.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have experience of programming in any language. Experience with the command line interface to the host computer.

Delegates will learn how to

• Write Well Structured readable and Portable Fortran Programs.

Course Outline.

• Brief history of the Fortran language (Fortran 77, 90, 95, 2003, 2008)
• integer, real and character data types
• computer arithmetic and precision
• arrays
• whole array processing
• dynamic arrays
• i/o and file handling
• intrinsic and user defined functions
• the remaining Fortran intrinsic data types, character, logical and complex
• control structures
• introduction to modules
• subroutines
• modules for defining numeric precision (kind type parameters)
• modules for global data
• introduction to derived (user defined) data types
• introduction to pointers

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