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Introduction to FORTRAN

N. West (n.west1@physics.oxford.ac.uk)

Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Layout of FORTRAN Stataments
- The Standard Layout
- The TAB Layout
- Comment Lines, Blank Lines, Spaces and TABs
Constants, Variables, Expressions and Assignments
PRINT, READ, STOP and END statements
GOTO Statements
- Unconditional GOTO
- Computed GOTO
- Assign GOTO
IF statements
- ARITHMETIC IF
- Logical IF
- Block IF
Arrays - DIMENSION, REAL and INTEGER statements
Loops - DO and CONTINUE statements
FORMAT statements
- General Discussion
- Summary
General I/O
- Introduction
- READ and WRITE statements
- OPEN and CLOSE statements
- REWIND and BACKSPACE statements
- DIRECT or RANDOM Access
CHARACTER data
- Constants
- REAL and INTEGER variables
- CHARACTER variables
- I/O
LOGICAL Data
Subprograms
- Introduction
- SUBROUTINE, CALL and RETURN statements
- FUNCTION statements
- PROGRAM statements
- CHARACTER Constants as Arguments
COMMON statements
EQUIVALENCE statements
Initialisation of Variables and Arrays
- DATA Statements
- BLOCK DATA Statements
Octal and Hexadecimal
Statement Ordering and Program Layout
Building Programs and Using Libraries
- Closing Remarks
Exercises
- Introduction
- On-line Phone Book
- Fitting a Straight Line
- Finding the Solution to an Equation Between Limits
- Monte Carlo of a 1d Spectrum
- Histogram Plotter
- General Chi-Squared Fitting
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n west (APC)
2000-03-08