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📘 Learn Fortran

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🧠 What This Book Covers

Learn Fortran provides a structured and practical guide to mastering one of the most powerful and enduring languages in computational science. You’ll explore:

Each chapter is enriched with real-world examples, exercises, and best practices to help you write clean, robust, and scalable Fortran applications.

Whether you’re just getting started or modernizing legacy code, this book is your complete Fortran companion.

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📚 Table of Contents

🔍 Why Learn Fortran?

  1. The Evolution of Fortran
  2. Who Should Read This Book?
  3. What This Book Covers

🧭 Introduction to Fortran

  1. History and Evolution
  2. Importance and Applications
  3. Differences Between Fortran Versions
  4. Summary

⚙️ Setting Up the Environment

  1. Installing a Fortran Compiler
  2. IDE and Tools Setup
  3. Writing and Compiling Your First Program
  4. Summary

📝 Basic Syntax and Program Structure

  1. Program Structure
  2. Variables and Data Types
  3. Constants and Implicit Typing
  4. Comments and Formatting
  5. Summary
  6. Exercises

📤 Input and Output Operations

  1. Console I/O
  2. File Handling
  3. Using FORMAT
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

🔄 Control Flow Structures

  1. Conditionals
  2. Loops
  3. GOTO and Computed GOTO
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

📦 Procedures and Modular Programming

  1. Functions and Subroutines
  2. Arguments and Passing Methods
  3. Modules and Interfaces
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

🧮 Arrays and Data Structures

  1. 1D and Multi-Dimensional Arrays
  2. Slicing and Array Operations
  3. Dynamic Memory
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

🏗️ Derived Data Types and Structures

  1. TYPE Definitions
  2. Records and Structures
  3. Pointers in Fortran
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

🔍 Advanced Fortran Features

  1. Recursion
  2. Operator Overloading
  3. Generic Interfaces
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

🚀 Fortran and Parallel Computing

  1. Intro to Parallel Programming
  2. Co-arrays (Fortran 2008+)
  3. OpenMP
  4. MPI for Distributed Computing
  5. Summary
  6. Exercises

🔢 Scientific and Numerical Computing

  1. Precision & Accuracy
  2. Complex Number Support
  3. Libraries (BLAS, LAPACK)
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

🌐 Interfacing with Other Languages

  1. C Interop (ISO_C_BINDING)
  2. Python via f2py
  3. Mixed-Language Strategies
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

🧪 Debugging and Optimization

  1. Common Errors & Debugging
  2. Compiler Optimizations
  3. Profiling and Performance Tuning
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

✅ Best Practices and Modern Fortran

  1. Readable and Maintainable Code
  2. Modernizing Legacy Fortran
  3. Future Directions for Fortran
  4. Summary
  5. Exercises

💬 “Fortran is the engine behind many of the world’s most advanced scientific discoveries. This book equips you to wield that power.”