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Fortran as first language 2016-10-07 19:48:08 Post No. 56969325
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Fortran as first language Anonymous 2016-10-07 19:48:08 Post No. 56969325 [Report]

Sup g
Taking a course in numerical modelling in Fortran, and i have no programming experience at all, expect for some shit tier python scripts

How fucked am I?

Anonymous 2016-10-07 19:58:15 Post No.56969481
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 19:58:15 Post No.56969481 [Report]

>>56969325
Well, Fortran is the language perfectly suited for your tasks.

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:03:11 Post No.56969556
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:03:11 Post No.56969556 [Report]

>>56969325
>How fucked am I?
Pretty fucked. If you're lucky you're at least getting to use Fortran 90 or later though.

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:05:40 Post No.56969590
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:05:40 Post No.56969590 [Report]

>>56969325
Fortran is a highly specialized tool compared to most modern programming languages. It's not all that difficult to pick up. I had a course that used it ten years ago with nothing under my belt but a bit of modeling software and BASIC at the time and I made it through just fine.

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:07:41 Post No.56969616
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:07:41 Post No.56969616 [Report]

There is only one good book on learning Fortran for general purpose programming if you have no previous experience in general purpose programming, that is "Modern Fortran in Practice" by Arjen Markus

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:08:37 Post No.56969632
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:08:37 Post No.56969632 [Report]

>>56969590
The only thing that made me nigger are formats.

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:09:20 Post No.56969650
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:09:20 Post No.56969650 [Report]

>>56969325
You'll be fine OP

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:09:53 Post No.56969658
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:09:53 Post No.56969658 [Report]

>>56969616
Can second, good book

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:10:18 Post No.56969668
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:10:18 Post No.56969668 [Report]

>>56969325
Must people that learned Fortran didn't program before. That's why the "best first language" is a meme.

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:14:47 Post No.56969729
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:14:47 Post No.56969729 [Report]

>>56969668
Is this actually true? I find it hard to find tutorials that assume I know jack shit
>>56969616
Thanks, I'll take it out of the library
>>56969590
Yeah but I'm also a retard so there's that
>>56969556
I'm using F90, half of the point of the course is for people inheriting old f77 programs

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:20:28 Post No.56969826
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:20:28 Post No.56969826 [Report]

>>56969729
>Is this actually true? I find it hard to find tutorials that assume I know jack shit
dont feed the "XXX is a meme language" trolls, theyre in every programming thread.

Fortran is one of the most optimizable programming languages, there is no "undefined behavior" lurking in every corner like other compiled languages, its used for scientific programming because its the best tool for the job

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:24:54 Post No.56969904
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:24:54 Post No.56969904 [Report]

>>56969729
>Yeah but I'm also a retard so there's that
Fortran isn't hard. It's just old and doesn't have a ten million pajeet following on stack. You'll pick it up without issue and if you don't then you should go find a job doing manual labor.

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:25:20 Post No.56969910
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:25:20 Post No.56969910 [Report]

>>56969729
Of course it's true. 40-30 years ago you had college students learning how to program computers with punch cards for COBOL and Fortran, and 10 year olds were learning BASIC on their Amigas.