Computing for engineers and scientists with FORTRAN 77: By D.D. McCracken and W.I. Salmon John Wiley & Son, 1988, 744 pp., 2nd Edition Softback, £31.90/$47.85 ISBN: 0471-62552-3
✍ Scribed by Andre de Carvalho Neves
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0955-7997
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✦ Synopsis
This book is a comprehensive introduction to FORTRAN 77 which can be used as a beginner's text for undergraduate and graduate students in scientific courses.
The aim of the authors is not only to explain all FOR-TRAN statements but to teach a clear programming style using top-down, modular design techniques in order to minimize bugs. In addition, the authors give some hints about how to use the statements properly and the danger and pitfalls that can occur when they are not well employed.
The book contains over 135 running programs about simple engineering and scientific problems which illustrate the use of the statements. In some of these examples there are bugs left purposely in order to make the student face some typical debugging situations.
The student can practice his understanding of the text by solving some exercises and programming projects presented throughout the chapters.