Fortran Tutorial

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What is Fortran?

Fortran was formally initiated and developed in 1957. It was developed by IBM team to perform scientific calculations. After that they made it in to a high level programming language. Here in this tutorial we learn the fundamental concepts of Fortran and its programming code.

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Fortran Tutorial: List of Topics

• Fortran Elements And Concepts
  • Fortran Character Set
  • Fortran Data Types
  • Collating Sequence
  • Symbolic Names
  • Fortan Variables
  • Source Program Lines
  • Fortran Statements
  • Program Units
  • Program Organization
• Constants And Data Structures
  • Fortan Constants
  • Character Substrings
  • Records
  • Fortan Arrays
• Expressions
  • Arithmetic Expressions In Fortran
  • Character Expressions
  • Relational Expressions
  • Logical Expressions
  • Evaluating Expressions In General
• Specification Statements
  • Automatic, Static
  • Block Data
  • Common
  • Data
  • Data Type Statements
  • Dimension
  • Equivalence
  • External
  • Implicit
  • Intrinsic
  • Namelist
  • Parameter
  • Pointer
  • Program
  • Record
  • Save
  • Structure / Union
  • Volatile
• Assignment And Data Statements
  • Arithmetic Assignment Statements
  • Logical Assignment Statements
  • Character Assignment
  • Aggregate Assignment
  • Assign
  • Data Initialization
  • Implied-do Lists
• Control Statements
  • Call Statement In Fortran
  • Continue
  • Do Statement
  • Do While
  • Else
  • Else If
  • End
  • End Do
  • End If
  • Go To (unconditional)
  • Go To (computed)
  • Go To (symbolic Name)
  • If (arithmetic)
  • If (branch Logical)
  • If (test Conditional)
  • Pause
  • Return Statement In Fortran
  • Stop
• Input/output Processing
  • What Is A Record?
  • I/o Statements
  • What Is A File?
  • Methods Of File Access
  • Units
• Input/output Statements
  • Statement Summary
  • Accept
  • Backspace
  • Close
  • Decode
  • Define File
  • Delete Statement
  • Encode
  • Endfile
  • Find
  • Inquire
  • Open
  • Print Or Type
  • Read (direct Access)
  • Read (indexed)
  • Read (internal)
  • Read (sequential)
  • Rewind
  • Rewrite
  • Unlock
  • Write (direct Access)
  • Write (indexed)
  • Write (internal)
  • Write (sequential)
  • Control Information List — Cilist
  • Input/output List — Iolist
  • Data Transfer Rules
• Format Specification
  • Format Stored As A Character Entity
  • Format Statement
  • Field And Edit Descriptors
  • Field Descriptor Reference
  • Edit Descriptor Reference
  • Complex Data Editing
  • Interaction Between I/o List And Format
  • List-directed Formatting
• Statement Functions And Subprograms
  • Unction And Subroutine Subprograms
  • Statement Functions
  • Parameter Passing
  • Function And Subroutine Subprograms
  • Function
  • Subroutine
  • Entry
  • Include
• Compiler Options
  • Options Statement
  • In-line Options
  • $include Statement