Compaq Visual Fortran (Paperback)

by Norman Lawrence PhD MEd (Author) "Compaq Visual Fortran (Visual Fortran) uses the same development environment as Microsoft Visual C++..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

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“Dr. Lawrence’s book is what Visual Fortran users have been waiting for—a thorough and detailed tutorial showing how to take full advantage of the richness of the Windows programming environment from Fortran.”—Steve Lionel, Visual Fortran Engineering, Intel Corporation

“This book is a natural extension of the Visual Fortran documentation. Dr. Lawrence uses many annotated example programs to show how to call Win32 routines and display graphics using various methods.”—Michael Etzel, Visual Fortran Writing, Intel Corporation -- Review

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"Dr. Lawrence's book is what Visual Fortran users have been waiting for-a thorough and detailed tutorial showing how to take full advantage of the richness of the Windows programming environment from Fortran."-Steve Lionel, Visual Fortran Engineering, Intel Corporation

"This book is a natural extension of the Visual Fortran documentation. Dr. Lawrence uses many annotated example programs to show how to call Win32 routines and display graphics using various methods."-Michael Etzel, Visual Fortran Writing, Intel Corporation

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Product Details

• Paperback: 462 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press; 1st edition (December 21, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555582494
• ISBN-13: 978-1555582494
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #784,893 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it, April 25, 2002

By	Galip H. Guvelioglu (Bethlehem, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a chemical engineer most of our programs are in Fortran. I am an expert level Visual C++ developer and I am currently working on a project to develop an Excel GUI for a simulation in Fortran DLL's. I bought this book to widen my Visual Fortran knowledge, it does not offer anything, nothing new and everything is outdated. The print quality is poor resolution of the screen shots are very low; you cannot read anything in figures. I am not rating this book low by being an expert Visual C++ developer, I am rating this book low as a Visual Fortran User.
I bought this book yesterday and I am going to sell this book right now. Anyone interested?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WHAT A CRUMMY BOOK!!, March 1, 2004

By A Customer

You'll be confused by page 15. The author makes no attempt to teach windows programming for Fortran in a way anyone can understand. He seems to be highly impressed with his own sophisticated knowledge and wants all of us to know how smart he is. Unfortunately that doesn't do any good for us Fortran programmers who want to learn how to build Windows applications. The author will show us examples that combine dozens of different subject he (briefly) touched on in the text rather than an example that shows one or just a few concepts. It's confusing as hell. Unfortunately, this is probably the only book we'll ever get on building Fortran programs for Windows since so few people are interested in doing such a thing. Consequently the author will continue to make money of this miserable work. CAN ANY OF YOU OUT THERE WRITE A BETTER BOOK? PLEASE!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The ONLY book that has it all, July 29, 2008

By	Christopher Ray - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I started learning Fortran about a month ago and it was impossible to find documentation on how to build GUIs. Reading the MSN Library helped with background info, but didn't explain how to use anything with Fortran. This is the ONLY resource I could find that has complete explanations for making GUIs as nice as you want, depending on the time you put in. It is certainly not for someone without some background knowledge of windows and GUI elements and controls, but this book will teach you everything you need if you can follow it and work with the examples.