Learn Fortran

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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

Online courses

• Programming in Fortran course offered at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
• PRACE Course: Fortran for Scientific Computing
• PRACE Course: Advanced Fortran Topics
• 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
• Kursmaterial für Wissenschaftliches Programmieren (Modern Fortran, 2017) from Bálint Aradi at Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science (German)
• Formations Fortran Fortran course from beginner to expert level (French)
• Modern Fortran Programming for Chemists and Physicists course by Pekka Manninen from University of Helsinki (includes coarrays)
• Expressing Object-Oriented Concepts in Fortran90
• Coarray tutorial by Thomas Koenig
• Parallel Programming Workshop materials from the High-Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart
• Programming in Modern Fortran by Philipp Engel
• 2018 Workshop on Fortran Modernization for Scientific Applications
• Introduction to Programming using Fortran 95/2003/2008
• Scientific Programing and Numerical Computation course by Wu-ting Tsai from National Taiwan University
• 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
• 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
• Professional Programmer's Guide to Fortran77 by Clive G. Page, University of Leicester, UK
• Fortran90 for Fortran77 Programmers by Clive G. Page
• Introduction to Computer Programming Using Fortran 95 training materials from ARCHER, the UK National Supercomputing Service
• Combining Object-Oriented Techniques with Co-arrays in Fortran 2008 by Robert W. Numrich
• Parallel programming in Fortran with Coarrays by John Reid
• Introduction to Co-Array Fortran by Robert W. Numrich
• Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer by Bo Einarsson and Yurij Shokin
• Fortran Tutorial older tutorial by Erik Boman, Stanford University
• Fortran 90 Tutorial older tutorial by Paul Hargrove and Sarah Whitlock, Stanford University
• Fortran 90 Tutorial by C.-K. Shene, Michigan Technologial University
• Exploring Modern Fortran Basics by Milan Curcic, excerpt (Chapters 2, 3, and 4) from Modern Fortran - Building Efficient Parallel Applications

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
• Fehr, H. and Kindermann, F.. 2020. Introduction to Computational Economics Using Fortran . 1st ed. Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press
• Curcic, M.. 2020. Modern Fortran: Building Efficient Parallel Applications . 1st ed. Shelter Island, NY. Manning Publications
• Ray, S.. 2019. Fortran 2018 with Parallel Programming . 1st ed. . Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Numrich, R. W.. 2018. Parallel Programming with Co-arrays . 1st ed. New York. Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Chapman, S. J.. 2018. Fortran for Scientists and Engineers . 4th ed. New York. McGraw-Hill Education
• Chivers, I. and Sleightholme, J.. 2018. Introduction to Programming with Fortran . 4th ed. . Springer International Publishing
• Metcalf, M., Reid, J. and Cohen, M.. 2018. Modern Fortran Explained . 5th ed. Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press
• Chirila, D. B., and Lohmann, G.. 2015. Introduction to Modern Fortran for the Earth System Sciences . 1st ed. Berlin. Springer-Verlag
• Brainerd, W. S.. 2015. Guide to Fortran 2008 Programming . 1st ed. London. Springer-Verlag
• Rouson, D., Xia, J., and Xiaofeng, X.. 2014. Scientific Software Design: The Object-Oriented Way . 2nd ed. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press
• Hanson, R. J. and Hopkins, T.. 2013. Numerical Computing with Modern Fortran . 1st ed. Philadelphia. SIAM
• Markus, A.. 2012. Modern Fortran in Practice . 1st ed. Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press
• Clerman, N. S. and Spector, W.. 2011. Modern Fortran: Style and Usage . 1st ed. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press
• McCormack, D.. 2009. Scientific Software Development with Fortran . 1st ed. . Lulu Press
• Oliveira, S. and Steward, D.. 2006. Writing Scientific Software: A Guide to Good Style . 1st ed. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press
• Akin, E.. 2003. Object-Oriented Programming via Fortran 90/95 . 1st ed. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press
• Kernighan, B. and Pike, R.. 1999. The Practice of Programming . 1st ed. Reading. Addison-Wesley Professional