Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
This work provides a short 'getting started' guide to Fortran 90/95. The main target audience consists of newcomers to the field of numerical computation within Earth system sciences (students, researchers or scientific programmers). Furthermore, readers accustomed to other programming languages may also benefit from this work, by discovering how some programming techniques they are familiar with map to Fortran 95. The main goal is to enable readers to quickly start using Fortran 95 for writing useful programs. It also introduces a gradual discussion of Input/Output facilities relevant for Earth system sciences, from the simplest ones to the more advanced netCDF library (which has become a de facto standard for handling the massive datasets used within Earth system sciences). While related works already treat these disciplines separately (each often providing much more information than needed by the beginning practitioner), the reader finds in this book a shorter guide which links them. Compared to other books, this work provides a much more compact view of the language, while also placing the language-elements in a more applied setting, by providing examples related to numerical computing and more advanced Input/Output facilities for Earth system sciences. Naturally, the coverage of the programming language is relatively shallow, since many details are skipped. However, many of these details can be learned gradually by the practitioner, after getting an overview and some practice with the language through this book.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online Ressource (5414 KB, 250 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
ISBN:
364237008X
URL:
http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1969322
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1969322
DDC:
005.13
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Preface; Contents; Acronyms; 1 General Concepts; 1.1 History and Evolution of the Language; 1.2 Essential Toolkit (Compilers); 1.3 Basic Programming Workflow; References; 2 Fortran Basics; 2.1 Program Layout; 2.2 Keywords, Identifiers and Code Formatting; 2.3 Scalar Values and Constants; 2.3.1 Declarations for Scalars of Numeric Types; 2.3.2 Representation of Numbers and Limitations of Computer Arithmetic; 2.3.3 Working with Scalars of Numeric Types; 2.3.4 The [basicstyle=,keywordstyle=,identifierstyle=]kind type-parameter; 2.3.5 Some Numeric Intrinsic Functions
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2.3.6 Scalars of Non-numeric Types2.4 Input/Output (I/O); 2.4.1 List-Directed Formatted I/O to Screen/from Keyboard; 2.4.2 Customizing Format-Specifications; 2.4.3 Information Pathways: Customizing I/O Channels; 2.4.4 The Need for More Advanced I/O Facilities; 2.5 Program Flow-Control Elements ([basicstyle=,keywordstyle=,identifierstyle=]if, [basicstyle=,keywordstyle=,identifierstyle=]case, Loops, etc.); 2.5.1 [basicstyle=,keywordstyle=,identifierstyle=]if Construct; 2.5.2 [basicstyle=,keywordstyle=,identifierstyle=]case Construct
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2.5.3 [basicstyle=,keywordstyle=,identifierstyle=]do Construct2.6 Arrays and Array Notation; 2.6.1 Declaring Arrays; 2.6.2 Layout of Elements in Memory; 2.6.3 Selecting Array Elements; 2.6.4 Writing Data into Arrays; 2.6.5 I/O for Arrays; 2.6.6 Array Expressions; 2.6.7 Using Arrays for Flow-Control; 2.6.8 Memory Allocation and Dynamic Arrays; 2.7 More Intrinsic Procedures; 2.7.1 Acquiring Date and Time Information; 2.7.2 Random Number Generators (RNGs); References; 3 Elements of Software Engineering; 3.1 Motivation; 3.2 Structured Programming (SP) in Fortran
