Fortran 95/2003 for Scientists & Engineers 3rd Edition

It's hard to understand who the target audience is for this book. It is so bloated with endless basic programming fundamentals and practices that the details of the Fortran language itself are hard to pick out. I first programmed in Fortran (it was spelled FORTRAN then) in 1965, hadn't worked with it for about 30 years, and - as an experienced programmer/engineer - needed to get up to speed expeditiously on current language details for a specific project. This book was not a good choice; it's huge and seems to be aimed at someone learning programming as a discipline from scratch, using, for some bizarre reason, Fortran as the 'learning language'. Given the more modern learning languages available, I can't imagine anyone actually doing this, but if there is such a person, this book is for you. As a language reference for even moderately experienced programmers it's essentially unusable. Also, the shear physical size of the paperback book (almost 1000 pages) makes it far too fragile for the constant thumbing needed to find the code syntactical nuggets buried in its depths. My volume is literally falling apart after only about 3 weeks of (frustrating) use as a reference. I've ordered Gehrke - Fortran 95 Language Guide as a replacement - hopefully a better choice.

It's good for what it is for. My class demanded we learn Fortran 95 (not even the most current fortran), so here I am.Once I got over a mental block about reading 'pseudo code', its chapter instruction made a lot more sense. But there are plenty of examples to understand what they are talking about if you follow along, and/ or code it up too. (Which is cool, since then you can tweak 'em and see what works vs what breaks it. How I learned Select Case! You can totally nest those beasts.)PRICING:To rent this in August was $99?! I downloaded a pdf instead! But I hate reading on my laptop, so checked back at the end of September, and it was only $26! worth it. So be aware of that sort of demand bubble and what it can do to your budget.

If, for some disturbing reason, you are learning Fortran as a first language; first, seek professional help - there might be something not quite right in your head and second this book is probably for you.I'm an experienced programmer and was looking for a nice bench reference at work as I have never worked with Fortran before and now find myself responsible for maintaining lots of it. The table of contents and index (the most important features of a reference book besides having the information) were next to useless and the book is littered with verbose discussion about trivial things that assume the reader has never programmed before. So, if you just want a bench reference, look elsewhere as I am.

As someone who never programmed before, i love this book. It is a really easy intro to how to write programs, it has examples of programs for every concept, offers questions/quizzes in the chapter, gives little side notes of 'good programming practice', and at the end of every chapter has programs ideas to write that are very interesting.

I have written and maintained a lot of Fortran 77 code and a small amount of Fortran 90 code, so I was looking for a book that would include the changes in the language in Fortran 90, 95 and 2003, what they were for and how to use them. This book does a very good job of that.

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Fortran, a forerunner of scientific computing, generally have 3 types of book1) Reference, a bit lucid explanation of the standard, generally suitable for experienced programmer e.g  Modern Fortran Explained (Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation)  or  The Fortran 2003 Handbook: The Complete Syntax, Features and Procedures 2) Fortran for beginners like  Fortran 90 Programming (International Computer Science Series) with very lucid treatment, but sometime leaves some aspect of standard. Uses lots of example, best practices "Tips" etc.3) Fortran in Practice, generally author's example of some working codes.The Chapman's book is a mix of type 2 and type 3. Its introductory, with chapter end problem, breaking it to algorithm and transfer it to the real code. This will be too helpful for a beginners think process.As being introductory, it has not included "all" aspect of f90/2003 rather discussed most used features; which may be good for beginners as they dont need to wonder if the feature is implemented in his compiler or not. But a notorious miss is C-Interoperability.The book, as the name suggests, a bit dated, so readers will not get any hint of coarray of 2008 and other thing, but we should not complain.But, the books strength is its example and its treatment of topics, which is, in my opinion, "best in the class". Indexing is very rigorous so its easy to pick up the topic readers need.Bottomline is this is a great book for beginners, a very very good book for experienced users, but probably not much useful for Gurus (and hopefully they will not read my review) Modern Fortran Explained (Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computation)The Fortran 2003 Handbook: The Complete Syntax, Features and ProceduresFortran 90 Programming (International Computer Science Series)

1ヶ月ぐらいかけて読破しました。演習問題はやってませんが、FORTRANの人がFortranを勉強するならベストの1冊ですし、すぐれた洋書では普通ですが、ほぼすべての事柄について網羅されているので読み進める上で、プログラムを書く上で他の文献が必要ありません。言語仕様を調べるのならFortran Handbookという選択もありますが、Fortranになってから導入された概念などの説明が例を挙げて詳しく説明されており、Fortranらしいプログラムを書くために必要なことが系統立って書かれています。95/2003は2003の言語仕様を見ながら95を学べるので、将来の言語仕様の変更を踏まえてこう書くべきと言うことも学べます。Fortranでプログラムを書いている人なら手元に置いておきたい一冊です。