Introduction to Fortran

Description

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.

Key areas

• 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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