USER NOTES ON FORTRAN PROGRAMMING (UNFP)

(An open cooperative practical guide)

Mirroring thanks to SunSITEs: Poland, USA, Germany, Russia, Austria [Home FTP site]

New! Code Tuning co-guide, 1998 Lahey Fortran Users' Conference

Copyright (C) 1996-1998 to the contributors.
May be redistributed provided it's kept updated,
and all rights are reserved

Contents
• Introduction, Corrections, Plans, Mirroring
• 1 - Programming
  • 1-1 - Short history of FORTRAN/Fortran
  • 1-2 - Comparison between FORTRAN and C
  • 1-3 - General programming rules
  • 1-4 - Standard and non-standard FORTRAN
  • 1-5 - Obsolete statements
  • 1-6 - Program layout
  • 1-7 - Debugging and program validation
  • 1-8 - FORTRAN pitfalls
  • 1-9 - Code optimization
  • 1-10 - Optimization techniques
  • 1-11 - FORTRAN/C interoperability
  • 1-12 - Recursion
  • 1-13 - Program input and output
  • 1-14 - General programming techniques
• 2 - Language topics
  • 2-1 - A FORTRAN specific problem
  • 2-2 - Constants
  • 2-3 - Data types
  • 2-4 - Passing arrays to subprograms
  • 2-5 - Variable size arrays
  • 2-6 - Array storage order
  • 2-7 - Common blocks
  • 2-8 - Logical units and files
  • 2-9 - I/O Methods
  • 2-10 - Using I/O formats
  • 2-11 - Internal files
  • 2-12 - (in prep.) VMS I/O
  • 2-13 - Using strings and character arrays
  • 2-14 - FORTRAN carriage control
  • 2-15 - Intrinsic functions/Optimized libraries
  • 2-16 - Dynamic memory allocation and pointers
  • 2-17 - (in prep.) Parallel Fortran
  • 2-18 - DO and other loops
  • 2-19 - (in prep.) Memory management
  • 2-20 - (in prep.) Syntax restrictions
• 3 - Tools
  • 3-1 - Compiler options
  • 3-2 - Editors
  • 3-3 - Finding useful routines
  • 3-4 - Literature
  • 3-5 - Preprocessors
  • 3-6 - Libraries
  • 3-7 - Graphics and Visualization
  • 3-8 - (in prep.) Debuggers
  • 3-9 - (in prep.) Error messages
  • 3-10 - Performance measurment
  • 3-11 - Useful WWW links
• 4 - Floating-point numbers
  • 4-1 - FP numbers - theory
  • 4-2 - FP numbers - an example
  • 4-3 - FP numbers- practical issues
  • 4-4 - Floats on different machines
  • 4-5 - Floating point exceptions
  • 4-6 - Errors in FP computations
  • 4-7 - Numerical stability
  • 4-8 - (in prep.) Radix conversion
  • 4-9 - Avoiding floating-point errors
  • 4-10 - The world of integers
• 5 - The environment
  • 5-1 - Operating systems
  • 5-2 - (in prep.) Compilation and linking
  • 5-3 - Data alignment
  • 5-4 - Files and records
  • 5-5 - Terminals and printers
  • 5-6 - (in prep.) File porting and FTP
  • 5-7 - Tapes
  • 5-8 - (in prep.) Data compression
• APPENDICES
  • A - Diagnosing integer arithmetic type
  • B - Character codes table
  • C - Arrays and pointers in C
  • D - Example: Unformatted textual header
  • E - Quick reference to Netlib
  • F - PC Fortran 90 compilers
  • G - Fortran 90 tutorials
• GLOSSARY, LIST OF TABLES, INDEX