An Introduction to Modern Fortran

• The handout: pdf, ps dvi.
• This course, as a gzipped unix tar-ball.

• A conversion course for F77 programmers from MAN T&EC.
• ...mirrored here.

• Page Zero
• F77: a Language of the Ancients
• What is Fortran 90?
• Example: Hello World Programmes
• Not This Course

• Example: Quadratic Equation Solver

• Declarations and Types
• The KIND Number
• Control Statements

• Subroutines and Functions
• Subroutines
• Functions
• Obsolete Features

• The Compile-Link-Run Cycle
• F90 Compilers at UMIST

• Hands-On One

• Example: Re-Writing the Quadratic Solver

• Programme Units, Etc
• Modules

• The Compile-Link-Run Cycle --- .mod files
• The Compile-Link-Run Cycle --- Makefiles: Unix
• Salford Makefiles

• What We've Skipped
• Obsolete Features

• Hands-On Two

• Example: Linear Algebra

• Declaring Arrays
• Referencing Elements
• Arrays: Under the Bonnet
• Array Bounds

• Allocatable Arrays
• Assumed-shape Array Arguments
• Automatic Arrays
• Array Manipulation

• What We've Skipped
• Obsolete Features

• Hands-On Three

• Interfaces
• Reusing F77 Code and Libraries

• Example: Writing a Wrapper

• Working with the NAg Libraries
• Working with Uniras Graphics
• Mixed Language Programming: Linking to C Libraries

• Hands-On Four

• Whither Fortran?
• Other Features that We've Skipped

• HPF
• F95
• F2000

• Free Compilers
• The F Language and Compiler

• Fortran on the Web
• Compilers
• Recommended Books