urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) (03/25/88)
Come early May I will be teaching a concentrated two week short
course in Fortran to a mixed bag of graduate students. Some
in an operations research curriculum, some who are working for
our computing center as user consultants, and any other students
who happen to sign up.
I expect to get in about 30 hours of lectures plus some supervised
programming labs and assigned exercises. I plan to cover the basics
leaving out such topics as NAMELIST, ENTRY, multiple returns,
and sophisticated i/o. That is things such as: random access i/o,
many of the options of OPEN & CLOSE, and INQUIRE
The computing environment has not been nailed down but will be
one of IBM VM/CMS, IBM MVS, or possibly IBM PC using the MS compiler.
Can anyone out there suggest a textbook to base this course on.
Many years ago I used books by McCracken, Cress and Dirksen and
other books from that era. I have not taught Fortran since the
introduction of Fortran 77, and so am not familiar with what
are considered good books now.
I have one recommendation to use Fortran 77, an introduction to
structured problem solving, by Dyck, Lawson, and Smith.
I would appreciate having other alternatives to consider.
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