Advanced features of modern Fortran

Description

This course will cover the more advanced features of modern Fortran and will be a mixture of lectures and practicals. The content of the course covers data structuring, object oriented programming, generic programming, operator overloading and an introduction to parallel programming.

Key areas

• modules and derived (user defined) types
  
• modules and contained procedures (functions and subroutines)
  
• modules and information hiding - public, private and protected
  
• generic programming
• elemental procedures
• operator overloading
• Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and inheritance
• OOP and polymorphic programming
• basic overview of parallel programming
• basic language features that support parallel programming
• whole array features
• forall construct
• where construct
• pure procedures
• automatic parallelisation
• compiler switches for optimisation and parallelisation
  
• introduction to:
  
• Fortran and OpenMP
• Fortran and MPI
• Coarray Fortran

Prerequisites

Attendance on the Introduction to Fortran course or a good grounding in modern Fortran.

Course material

The course is based on Introduction to programming with Fortran (2nd edition)

• online program examples (text files)
  

For more information please contact queries@fortranplus.co.uk