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Learning resources for beginners and experts alike

Getting Started

New to Fortran

Try the quickstart Fortran tutorial, to get an overview of the language syntax and capabilities.

Quickstart tutorial

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Looking for help

Ask a question in the Fortran-lang discourse - a forum for friendly discussion of all things Fortran.

Fortran-lang Discourse

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/

Play with Fortran

Get a taste of Fortran in an interactive playground in the browser.

Fortran Playground

https://dev.lfortran.org/

Mini-book Tutorials

Getting started

Quickstart Fortran Tutorial

An introduction to the Fortran syntax and its capabilities

Building programs

How to use the compiler to build an executable program

Setting up your OS

How to install a Fortran compiler and set up a development environment in Windows, Linux and macOS.

Fortran Best Practices

This tutorial collects a modern canonical way of doing things in Fortran.

Python–Fortran Rosetta Stone

This “Rosetta Stone” shows how to implement many common idioms in Python with NumPy and Fortran side by side.

Fortran Documentation

Fortran Intrinsics

man-pages for the Fortran Intrinsics

Fortran Object Oriented Programming

Putting Fortran’s object-related features to practical use

Other Resources

On the web

• Fortran wiki A rich collection of Fortran articles and resources in an editable wiki format

• Fortran 90 org Fortran Best Practices guide, Python/Fortran Rosetta Stone, Fortran FAQ

• Fortran 2018 Standard Interpretation Document J3/18-007r1 F2018, specification of the base Fortran 2018 language

• J3 Fortran Proposals a repository for community collaboration on proposals for the Fortran Standards Committee

• J3: US Fortran Standards Committee J3 is the US National Body for the international Fortran standards committee

• WG5: International Fortran Standards Committee

• Scivision Fortran 2018 Examples A github repository containing code samples for various Fortran 2018 features

• Doctor Fortran Blog A collection of posts on interesting or little-understood aspects of the Fortran language

Training providers

• ARCHER2 service training UK In-person/online courses in the UK on Fortran and related topics.

• High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart In-person/online courses in Germany on Fortran and HPC

• National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) In-person/online courses in USA on Fortran and HPC

• National Center for Atmospheric Research Training on using atmospheric modelling packages

• NASA Courses on the use of Fortran for scientific computing

• Intel Collection of on-demand training and articles.

Online Course Materials

• Programming in Fortran course offered at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (slides, sample code)

• PRACE Course: Advanced Fortran Topics (slides, sample code)

• The ‘F’ Word - Programming in Fortran modern Fortran for developing an extensible library that can be used to solve conservation laws (PDEs) using spectral and spectral element methods (video)

• Introduction to modern Fortran Modern Fortran course delivered by Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (video)

• Formations Fortran Fortran course from beginner to expert level (French) (slides, sample code)

• Modern Fortran Programming for Chemists and Physicists course by Pekka Manninen from University of Helsinki (includes coarrays) (slides, sample code)

• Expressing Object-Oriented Concepts in Fortran90 (course notes, sample code)

• Coarray tutorial by Thomas Koenig (course notes, sample code)

• Introduction to Modern Fortran course given by Nick Maclaren from the University of Cambridge Computing Service, derived from a course by Steve Morgan from the University of Liverpool (slides, sample code)

• Combining Object-Oriented Techniques with Co-arrays in Fortran 2008 by Robert W. Numrich (slides)

• Introduction to Co-Array Fortran by Robert W. Numrich (slides)

E-books

• Exploring Modern Fortran Basics by Milan Curcic, excerpt (Chapters 2, 3, and 4) from Modern Fortran - Building Efficient Parallel Applications

• Programming in Modern Fortran by Philipp Engel

• Introduction to Programming using Fortran 95/2003/2008 by Ed Jorgensen

• User Notes on Fortran Programming (UNFP)

• Designing and Building Parallel Programs by Ian Foster, contains descriptions of several non-standard Fortran dialects like Fortran M and High Performance Fortran

• Parallel programming with Fortran 2008 and 2018 coarrays course by Anton Shterenlikht from the University of Bristol

• Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer by Bo Einarsson and Yurij Shokin

• Fortran 90 Tutorial older tutorial by Paul Hargrove and Sarah Whitlock, Stanford University

In print

• Ramkarthik, M. S., and Solanki, P. D. 2021 Numerical Recipes in Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computing: An Adventure in FORTRAN 90 1st ed Boca Raton. CRC Press

• Metcalf, M., Reid, J., Cohen, M., and Bader, R. 2024 Modern Fortran Explained 6th ed Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press

• Curcic, M. 2020 Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications 1st ed Shelter Island, NY. Manning Publications

• Fehr, H. and Kindermann, F. 2020 Introduction to Computational Economics Using Fortran 1st ed Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press

• Markus, A. 2012 Modern Fortran in Practice 1st ed Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press

• Chivers, I. and Sleightholme, J. 2018 Introduction to Programming with Fortran 4th ed . Springer International Publishing

• Chapman, S. J. 2018 Fortran for Scientists and Engineers 4th ed New York. McGraw-Hill Education

• Ray, S. 2019 Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming 1st ed . Chapman and Hall/CRC

• Brainerd, W. S. 2015 Guide to Fortran 2008 Programming 1st ed London. Springer-Verlag

• Numrich, R. W. 2018 Parallel Programming with Co-arrays 1st ed New York. Chapman and Hall/CRC

• Akin, E. 2003 Object-Oriented Programming via Fortran 90/95 1st ed Cambridge. Cambridge University Press

• McCormack, D. 2009 Scientific Software Development with Fortran 1st ed None. Lulu Press

• Rouson, D., Xia, J., and Xiaofeng, X. 2014 Scientific Software Design: The Object-Oriented Way 2nd ed Cambridge. Cambridge University Press

• Chirila, D. B., and Lohmann, G. 2015 Introduction to Modern Fortran for the Earth System Sciences 1st ed Berlin. Springer-Verlag

• Clerman, N. S. and Spector, W. 2011 Modern Fortran: Style and Usage 1st ed Cambridge. Cambridge University Press

• Hanson, R. J. and Hopkins, T. 2013 Numerical Computing with Modern Fortran 1st ed Philadelphia. SIAM

• Oliveira, S. and Steward, D. 2006 Writing Scientific Software: A Guide to Good Style 1st ed Cambridge. Cambridge University Press

• Kernighan, B. and Pike, R. 1999 The Practice of Programming 1st ed Reading. Addison-Wesley Professional

• Juan Antonio Hernandez Ramos and Javier Escoto Lopez 2020 How to learn Applied Mathematics through modern Fortran 1st ed Madrid. Independently published