Introduction to F95

This course provides an introduction to Fortran 95, which contains many powerful features that make it a suitable language for programming scientific, engineering and numerical applications. Familiarity with a Unix or Linux environment is assumed. The course is open to all, but is mainly targeted at existing ARCHER users.

Details

Fortran 90/95 is a modern and efficient general purpose programming language, particularly suited to numeric and scientific computation. The language offers advanced array support, and is complimented by a wealth of numerical libraries. Many large scale computing facilities offer heavily optimised Fortran compilers, making Fortran suitable for the most demanding computational tasks.

Topics include: fundamentals, program control, input and output, variables, procedures, modules, arrays.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this course students should be able to:

• Understand and develop modularised Fortran programs.
• Compile and run Fortran programs on ARCHER.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course, although a familiarity with a Unix or Linux environment is assumed.

Timetable

Details are subject to change, but start, end and break times will stay the same.

Day 1

• 09:30 LECTURE: Fundamentals of Computer Programming
• 11:00 BREAK: Coffee
• 11:30 PRACTICAL: Hello world, formatting, simple input
• 12:30 BREAK: Lunch
• 13:30 LECTURE: Logical Operations and Control Constructs
• 14:30 PRACTICAL: Numeric manipulation
• 15:30 BREAK: Tea
• 16:00 LECTURE: Arrays
• 17:00 PRACTICAL: Arrays
• 17:30 CLOSE

Day 2

• 09:30 PRACTICAL: Arrays (cont'd)
• 10:15 LECTURE: Procedures
• 11:15 BREAK: Coffee
• 11:45 PRACTICAL: Procedures
• 12:45 BREAK: Lunch
• 13:45 LECTURE: Modules and Derived Types
• 15:15 BREAK: Tea
• 15:45 PRACTICAL: Modules, Types, Portability
• 17:30 CLOSE

Registration

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Questions?

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