Guide to Fortran 2008 Programming

Walter S. Brainerd

ISBN 10: 1447167589 / ISBN 13: 9781447167587

Published by Springer London, Springer London Sep 2015, 2015

About this Item

Neuware -This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the most important features of Fortran 2008. Features: presents a complete discussion of all the basic features needed to write complete Fortran programs; makes extensive use of examples and case studies to illustrate the practical use of features of Fortran 08, and supplies simple problems for the reader; provides a detailed exploration of control constructs, modules, procedures, arrays, character strings, data structures and derived types, pointer variables, and object-oriented programming; includes coverage of such major new features in Fortran 08 as coarrays, submodules, parameterized derived types, and derived-type input and output; highlights the topic of modules as the framework for organizing data and procedures for a Fortran program; investigates the excellent input/output facilities available in Fortran; contains appendices listing the many intrinsic procedures and providing a brief informal syntax specification for thelanguage.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 420 pp. Englisch.

Seller Inventory # 9781447167587

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Guide to Fortran 2008 Programming
• Publisher: Springer London, Springer London Sep 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447167589
• ISBN 13: 9781447167587
• Binding: Buch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu

About this title

Synopsis

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the most important features of Fortran 2008. Features: presents a complete discussion of all the basic features needed to write complete Fortran programs; makes extensive use of examples and case studies to illustrate the practical use of features of Fortran 08, and supplies simple problems for the reader; provides a detailed exploration of control constructs, modules, procedures, arrays, character strings, data structures and derived types, pointer variables, and object-oriented programming; includes coverage of such major new features in Fortran 08 as coarrays, submodules, parameterized derived types, and derived-type input and output; highlights the topic of modules as the framework for organizing data and procedures for a Fortran program; investigates the excellent input/output facilities available in Fortran; contains appendices listing the many intrinsic procedures and providing a brief informal syntax specification for thelanguage.

About the Author

Dr. Walter S. Brainerd is the owner of The Fortran Company and an author of the Springer references Guide to Fortran 2003 Programming, The Fortran 2003 Handbook and Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90.