Classical FORTRAN: Programming for Engineering and Scientific Applications

Classical FORTRAN is a college text, self-study guide, and reference about computer programming for numerical calculations. The book features a conversational, classroom-proven style that is easy to read and contains numerous case studies and examples. The author provides practical advice on program design, documentation, and coding style and unusually detailed coverage of floating-point arithmetic. He thoroughly discusses performance measurement and optimization and introduces parallel processing using MPI, FORTRAN-90, High Performance FORTRAN, and vector processing. The author also gives expert advice on dealing with troublesome legacy codes.Michael Kupferschmid is the author of 'Classical FORTRAN: Programming for Engineering and Scientific Applications', published 2002 under ISBN 9780824708023 and ISBN 0824708024.