Anyone familiar with fortran?

[XDguy]

Kind of lost on a few programs that I need to write for school and could use some help.

 

[herohog]

I remember a little and may be able to help some. No promises. It's been years but I have been a programmer for years and as long as I have a command and function reference I can probably figure out what ya need.

 

[Duck Jenkins]

I have not seen Fortran since I got out of college some in the late 70's.

I CRS.

 

[70116]

I remember a little and may be able to help some. No promises. It's been years but I have been a programmer for years and as long as I have a command and function reference I can probably figure out what ya need.

I stopped at FORTRAN IV in the late 60's and I don't want to go back to it now.

herohog, check this link http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/COURSES/cs201/NOTES/fortran.html

 

[CavalryJim]

Kind of lost on a few programs that I need to write for school and could use some help.

What kind of retro programming class has you writing in FORTRAN?

 

[Bearco]

What kind of retro programming class has you writing in FORTRAN?

+1

 

[XDguy]

I am a mechanical engineering major at uno and intro to programming, fortran is required. The programs have been pretty easy so far but these last few I dont even know where to start.

 

[LACamper]

I had it in high school... Haven't seen it since.

 

[glimmerman]

Had to take 6 hours of it in college back in mid 70's.............have never used it since!!!!!!!! What a waste of good time!!!!!!!!

 

[flamatrix99]

I had a FORTRAN class in 1983.....

I am currently taking Calc II and it blows...

 

[CavalryJim]

I am a mechanical engineering major at uno and intro to programming, fortran is required. The programs have been pretty easy so far but these last few I dont even know where to start.

...let me guess. The class is taught by some old dude that started the first class by showing you a stack of punch cards.

 

[spanky]

You mean 4chan?

 

[70116]

I am a mechanical engineering major at uno and intro to programming, fortran is required. The programs have been pretty easy so far but these last few I dont even know where to start.

Check out the web site I listed in post #4. It has examples as well as a bunch of other stuff.

There's also a free FORTRAN compiler available at www.fortran.com .

I was amazed that the language is still alive and evidently in use.

The best way to start someting you don't fully comprehend is a Block flow / function diagram. Start with the major pieces and then expand them. Each will eventually expand into subsets which almost become programmming statements with control statements (IF's) and functional statements (formulas). Have fun.

 

[aard3]

xdguy,

So is the problem you are having fortran specific, or are you just having trouble with a concept?

Aaron

 

[glimmerman]

You mean 4chan?

+1 ........We used to get the "oriental guys" who hung around the computer lab to run our programs for us, the only problem was that they could not take our test for us...

 

[XDguy]

Flamatrix99, are you taking it at UNO? I just finished up calc2 last spring and am taking calc3 this fall.
The guy who teaches it is a younger guy (40's) who seems to know his stuff but he just reads from a text and copies the examples character for character.
I have written around 8 programs so far and had very little trouble, now I cant even get the programs started. I wrote programs to find prime numbers in a user inputted range, print out a histogram based on user entries, find the smallest, average and standard deviation of 3 user inputted numbers. One program we have due on monday is to have the program calculate the odds of winning in texas hold em if you are dealt a king and nine of clubs. Being that I have never played before I have spent more time learning about texas hold em than writing the program.

 

[flamatrix99]

No I am taking it through the distance learning center @ LSU.

 

[XDguy]

I did pretty good in calc 2, let me know if you need any help.

 

[FishingFool]

fortran? I thought ya'll were supposed to take java as your computer science requirement. Understanding the problem is the hardest part. Sounds like you need to email your instructor and ask him details about poker.

 

[Guate_shooter]

Holy **** I took that back in High School right after programming in Pascal , I was glad when we were using Delphi for a change eventhough I totally sucked at programming and Chemistry.