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Fortran 90 Programming (International Computer Science Series)

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Well written detailed coverage of Fotran 90. Clear explanations of obsolete F77 features and other features of the language to avoid using and why. I would recommend this text to anyone wishing to learn F90 from scratch or upgrading from F77. Good example programs, code fragment and many programming exercises with solutions. I am now enjoying the use of derived types and generic functions as well as extending the intrinsic functions.

This is one of the best books on Fortran 90 programming. Its major strength is that the information in the book is reliable and correct. It may especially be very useful for experienced FORTRAN 77 programmers. I think every Fortran programmer must have a copy of this text in his/her library.

This book explains very well the features of Fortran90 programming, but it is way too pedantic. I would have preferred a more concise, O'Reilly style of writing. Many examples of very simple code are provided to illustrate points - I found them to distract from the points being made. The book could also have benefited from a more Object Oriented focus as many of the new features of F90 over F77 are attempts to move Fortran in this direction.

Positives- Has all the neccesary information to begin programming in FORTRAN.


Negatives- Too much text to for explaining such a simple programming language. Examples are incomplete and useless. Not a good reference text. I suggest using Intro to FORTRAN 90 for Engineers and Scientist by Larry Nyhoff.

I learnt F90 from this and it is very good book, which tells you good programming practices. It teaches you how to write proper structured F90 programs and how to avoid the pitfalls of F77 or fortran langauge in general. And I saw lot of people including one of my professors writing bad to horrible F77 programs. Having worked as a professional C coder before, also helped me to appreciate this book.