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Fortran 90/95 Explained

By Michael Metcalf , John K. Reid

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1999
ISBN
9780198505587, 0198505582
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2659054 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
346\346
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

If you are new to Fortran and learn by doing, this is not the book for you. It is difficult to find explainations in one location. For example, when writing out a variable to the screen, you may want spaces put into the output. Where do you find the "coding" for spaces? Well, it's hidden very well in an example 20 pages later from the original text on the "write" statement. Also, I am currently writing code and need to use the 'call' statement. Unfortunately, something as useful as the call statement is hard to find in this book. I have had a difficult time using this book as a reference without having to spend a lot of time going through the whole chapter to find the information I needed. Maybe it just needs to be organized differently. I learn by looking at other people's coding and interpreting and investigating. This book does not lend itself very well to that type of method. Maybe it works for pure programmers, but I am an engineer and need results quickly. I hope this review helps you.

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