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Title: Compaq Visual Fortran ISBN: 1-55558-249-4 Publisher: Digital Press Pub. Date: 21 December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: WHAT A CRUMMY BOOK!!
Comment: 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 smart he is. Unfortunately that doesn't do any good for us Fortran programmers who want to learn how to build Windows applications. The author will show us examples that combine dozens of different subject he (briefly) touched on in the text rather than an example that shows one or just a few concepts. It's confusing as hell. Unfortunately, this is probably the only book we'll ever get on building Fortran programs for Windows since so few people are interested in doing such a thing. Consequently the author will continue to make money of this miserable work. CAN ANY OF YOU OUT THERE WRITE A BETTER BOOK? PLEASE!
Rating: 5
Summary: A great investment
Comment: For those die-hard Fortran programmers with no prior Windows programming experience, such as myself, this book is the perfect accompaniment to the CVF on-line programmers' guide and answers many of the lingering questions you may have after working through the CVF sample code. The great thing about this book is that all the examples discussed have the code freely available from the publisher's website, so that you can work through the concepts step-by-step in the book and then examine the nitty-gritty from the downloaded resources. Along-side Metcalf and Reid's "Fortran 90/95 explained", Norman Lawrence's "Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications" is definintely one of my most valuable reference texts. Get the most out of your Visual Fortran software and stick this book in a prominent position on your shelf!
Rating: 5
Summary: Yes, buy it.
Comment: Fortran is a very elegant mathematical developing language with periodical updates (Fortran 55, 66, 77, 88 but labeled 90/95, and now still waiting for ANSI 99 which will probably be labeled 2002). You don't need a whole library to grasp its possibilities and functions, while the mathematical and statistical libraries are incomparable. But in most manuals the use of Windows and graphics are underexposed, whereas many Fortran solutions for graphics and some for Windows exist to choose from.
This is where Norman Lawrence comes in. I bought the latest print (C)2002. Not a general Fortran tutorial, but covering the necessary subjects to start immediately with Compaq Visual Fortran graphics and Windows, and with a nice Fortran programming style even a Guy-Like-Me could not improve too much (!!!). All sources available on the companion Web sites (Publisher, please pack these 90 separate files together).
A rare must in the Fortran collection, as was the earlier Jones & Crabtree: Fortran Tools 1988 ISBN 0471619760 for string manipulation, file-i/o, lexical analysis in Fortran, a candidate for a reprint.
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Title: Digital Visual FORTRAN Programmer's Guide ISBN: 1555582184 Publisher: Digital Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $62.95 |
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Title: Fortran 90/95 Explained by Michael Metcalf, John Ker Reid ISBN: 0198505582 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Object-Oriented Programming via Fortran 90/95 by Ed Akin ISBN: 0521524083 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Fortran 90/95 for Scientists and Engineers by Stephen J. Chapman, Stephen Chapman ISBN: 0072825758 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 31 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $109.35 |
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Title: FORTRAN 90 Programming (International Computer Science Series) by T.M R. Ellis, Ivor R. Philips, Thomas M. Lahey ISBN: 0201544466 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 31 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $46.88 |
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