Father of Fortran Programming Language Dies
John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM in 1950 as a programmer was to work on ways to simplify computer programming. The ... [... more]
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Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN 77: The Art of Scientific ...
 Book Description: This is the revised and expanded second edition of the hugely popular Numerical Recipes: the Art of Scientific Computing. The product of a unique collaboration among four leading scientists in academic research and industry, Numerical [... more]
$82.00
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Fortran
John Backus developed Fortran, or Formula Translator, one of the first general purpose, high-level computer programming languages. This widely used language made computers practical, accessible machines for scientists and others without requiring ... [... more]
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Compaq Visual FORTRAN: A Guide to Creating Windows ...
The book teaches CVF programming progressively, beginning with simple tasks and building up to writing professional-level Win32 applications. Readers will learn about the powerful new CVF graphical user interface, as well as the intricacies of Windows [... more]
$60.95
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Introduction to FORTRAN 90 for Engineers and Scientists
Best-selling authors, Larry Nyhoff and Sanford Leestma, bring you one of the first Fortran 90 texts in concise and modular format that features excellent engineering and science applications and programming problems. The authors, well-known for their [... more]
$47.00
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FORTRAN 95/2003 Explained
Fortran remains one of the principal languages used in scientific, numerical and engineering programming and a series of revisions to the standard versions of the language have progressively enhanced its power. The latest standard-Fortran 2003-greatly [... more]
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Adventures in Lightweight Internet App Development
I should be clear up front: I am no programmer. I dabble in JavaScript, and I learned Fortran and Basic (not the visual kind) in 1978 and haven't used either since 1986. My programming style (such as it is) is declarative, not object-oriented. ... [... more]
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Fortran Techniques with Special Reference to ...
The Little (Programming) Book: My daughter (doing her post-doc at Oxford) needed a Fortran book recommendation, and I was reminded of A. Colin Day's classic. When I was in graduate school, this book was the one to have. Of course, that was in the day of [... more]
$21.95
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Fortran for Scientists and Engineers: 1995-2003
for maintenance programmers: As someone who first learnt programming using Fortran, and then spent many years in uni writing Fortran code, I guess it is encouraging to see books still come out about it. But the bulk of this book could have be written 10 [... more]
$55.14
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The Essentials of Fortran (Essential Series)
overall a very useful book: It's short and has all the basics. I have been programming in C for a few years and had to do some Fortan programming. I bought this book only and it was a breeze to wade through. Smolarski writes very clearly and it's only 120 [... more]
$5.95
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Developing Statistical Software in Fortran 95 ...
pragmatic choice of language: Fortran just keeps chugging along. You rarely see Fortran texts in the computer section of bookstores anymore. Largely supplanted by newer programs with fancy user interfaces. But this book shows that there is still a lot of [... more]
$69.95
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Compaq Visual Fortran
WHAT A CRUMMY BOOK!!: You'll be confused by page 15. The author makes no attempt to teach windows programming for Fortran in a way anyone can understand. He seems to be highly impressed with his own sophisticated knowledge and wants all of us to know how [... more]
$69.95
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