Motivation
                          Introductory Fortran Programming
                                                Gunnar Wollan
                                            Department of Geosciences
                                    University of Oslo, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
                                                  Spring 2005
                                           Gunnar Wollan      Introductory Fortran Programming
                                               Motivation
     Motivation
          1 Motivation
                                           Gunnar Wollan      Introductory Fortran Programming
                                               Motivation
                                  About Fortran 77 and 95
     Contents
                 Gentle introduction to Fortran 77 and 95 programming
                 File I/O
                 Arrays and loops
                 Detailed explanation of modules
                 Computational efficiency aspects
                 Using modules as objects
                 The promise of Fortran 2003
                                           Gunnar Wollan      Introductory Fortran Programming
                                               Motivation
                                  About Fortran 77 and 95
     Required background
                 Programming experience with either C++, Java or Matlab
                 Interest in numerical computing using Fortran
                 Interest in writing efficient programs utilizing low-level details
                 of the computer
                                           Gunnar Wollan      Introductory Fortran Programming