Fortran Techniques with Special Reference to Non-numerical Applications

✍ Scribed by A. Colin Day

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 102
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a practical description of many of the commonly used programming techniques required in both numerical and non-numerical applications of Fortran. It is written for non-specialist users who have already completed a course in basic Fortran programming, but who may have only a minimum knowledge of mathematics.

Although Fortran is the most widel used and most compatible programming language for research applications, many of the techniques described by Dr Day are hard to find in the literature. Books on basic Fortran abound and the theory of the techniques is to be found in specialised texts for computer scientists; very few users' manuals exist, particlularly on the increasingly important non-numerical techniques with which Dr Day's book is largely concerned. It therefore fills a serious gap in the literature.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface page vii
1 Basic techniques 1
Flags and switches, DO-loops, packing numbers, unpacking
numbers, table translation, buffers, open-coded subroutines,
characters, linear search, exercises
2 Numbers and characters 14
Character to integer conversion, integer to character
conversion, character to floating point conversion, exercises
3 Plotting graphs on the lineprinter 20
General considerations, histograms, point plots, line plots,
density plots, exercises
4 Searching a table 35
Binary search, hashing with linear search, hashing with
non-linear search, exercises
5 Characters and words 43
Identifying characters, identifying keywords, identifying
words, exercises
6 Stacks and queues 51
Stacks, recursion, queues, double-ended queues, exercises
7 List processing 64
Chained lists, doubly chained lists, trees, exercises
8 Sorting 71
Exchange sort, ripple sort, tournament sort, monkey-puzzle
sort, exercises
9 Symbol-state tables 83
Simple syntax checking, action calls, subroutine calls,
building tables automatically, exercises
Bibliography 94
Index 95

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