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MET 253 — PROGRAMMING WITH FORTRAN I

BSc BSc Meteorology and Climate Science · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

The Fortran 90 Basics: Program Structure; Data Types and Numerical Operators (CHARACTER and LOGICAL operators), Valid variable names; Programming Style; Decision Making; The ‘DO’ Construct (Repetition with the DO construct), The CYCLE and EXIT STATEMENTS; Numeric Arrays: Part One, Printing Arrays to the screen; Arithmetic Expression with Integers and Reals; Data type casting; Intrinsic functions; Data Type Limitations: Complex arithmetic, The true meaning of ‘=’ in Fortran 90, Blank spaces and continuation lines, Simple Input and Output; Characters and Strings: Concatenation and substrings, Character intrinsic functions; The ‘PRINT’ Statement in Detail: Descriptor Symbols; Subroutines: Subroutines and Functions, Fortran 90 Modules: An Example Code;Some reasons for using Fortran 90 modules.

Credits
2
Level
Level 200

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