Structured Fortran 77 for Engineers and Scientists [Hardcover]

D.M. Etter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 1990 | ISBN-10: 0805300511 | ISBN-13: 978-0805300512 | Edition: 3rd

Over 400 engineering and science problems are included throughout this book. Special sections in each chapter cover debugging and style guidelines. Gauss elimination has been added as well as a new section on sorting and searching.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 588 pages
• Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, Subs of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc; 3rd edition (April 5, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805300511
• ISBN-13: 978-0805300512
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,142,998 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #45 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > Fortran

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A beginners guide to FORTRAN, April 26, 2000

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Andrew Campbell - See all my reviews

This review is from: Structured Fortran 77 for Engineers and Scientists (Paperback)

I used a copy of a previous edition of this book when completing my undergraduate degree. When I had to do a fair bit of programming recently, and needed to brush up on FORTRAN, I purchased this book.

It is a simple book that outlines the fundamentals of FORTRAN. It is more of a beginners guide than anything else. The shortcoming of this book is that there is no reference or summary section of all the commands - it really isn't a desktop reference. The advantage of this type of book is the number of good examples that it contains.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best textbooks for Fortran 77, October 20, 1999

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G. Urroz (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Structured Fortran 77 for Engineers and Scientists (Paperback)

I have used this book in my programming class for many years and it has proven to be reliable and well written. It has a good number of exercises and even some numerical methods applications.

4 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book if you still program in Forran, October 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Structured Fortran 77 for Engineers and Scientists (Paperback)

Inspite of OOPS and stuff, nothing beats Fortran in writing moderately complex programs without having to learn too many constructs. I routinely handle my data files in fortran rather than go all the way writing 'C' code. Reading/writing arrays with a single statement, good math functions, universal availability etc make fortran a very good scientific tool. (more like an advanced calculator). I will rather write a small fortran program than calculate something in my head. Some scientific packages use fortran as their base language, so a knowledge of fortran is not going to be wasted. And so math/science books use fortran, so you will definitely benefit if you can understand the language. You could probably translate one of those into C/C++ and make some easy money.