Ian
I would be happy to do a review of Walt Brainerd's book for you - if you
don't get any better qualified offers. I do get queries from some of my
colleagues from time to time, who are e.g. proficient in C or IDL or
Matlab or Python, but who encounter our existing body of Fortran code
(mostly Fortran95) and are sometimes baffled. Apart from Metcalfe,
Reid, and Cohen I don't know of any text books suitable for them.
Brainerd's book might be (from your description) a bit too oriented to
beginners, but maybe not.
Regards
On 05/12/2015 10:41, Ian Chivers wrote:
> Here are some items that may be of interest.
>
> Standards
> =========
>
> Here is a post that John Reid made about the latest
> Fortran standard.
>
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> WG5,
>
> I am pleased to tell you that our TS was published on Nov. 19 as
>
> ISO/IEC TS 18508:2015
> Information technology - Additional Parallel Features in Fortran
>
> Thanks, Bill, for all the hard work you put into this.
>
> John.
>
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> Congratulations to all involved in this work.
>
> Books
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>
> Here is a post by Walt regarding his book.
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>
> I was asked to announce this when available.
>
> This is not for most readers of this newsgroup,
> except some of the more inexperienced ones who
> have asked questions recently (I think that is
> a great use of clf). But maybe you have some
> friends, neighbors, or colleagues who might be
> interested.
>
> It is a tutorial book that starts at the beginning,
> but does include introductions to OO programming,
> submodules, PTDs, DTIO, and coarrays. It would be
> great for an introductory programming class if there
> were many such things. In my opinion. one of its
> best features is lots of examples; I will put many
> of them on fortran.com real soon.
>
> The price at fortran.com is $49.99, which, even with
> shipping, beats the price at Amazon or Springer (at least
> for shipping in the US). It is a sad fact that I get
> more $ selling the book than authoring it.
>
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>
> Wearing my editor of Fortran Forum hat
> would anyone (or more) like to review the book?
> I would include the review in (hopefully)
> the next edition of Fortran Forum.
>
> Springer will provide either an electronic
> or paper copy to the reviewer.
>
> http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781447167587
>
> if you would prefer a printed version please contact me and I will
> contact Springer London and arrange a copy to be sent to you.
>
> Course news
> ===========
>
> There are two Fortran courses being held at Nag in Oxford
> in February and March.
>
> http://www.fortranplus.co.uk/intro_fortran_course.html
>
> http://www.fortranplus.co.uk/adv_fortran_course.html
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