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Programming Made Easy -- series of posts by Michael Wirth

Open Beliavsky opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Michael Wirth, computer science professor at the University of Guelph, has been writing a series of short posts introducing Fortran, the latest being Programming Made Easy (VIII) -- Carbon Dating. Someone looking for more material at the level of the Quickstart tutorial could be directed to them.

Beliavsky avatar Oct 28 '21 13:10 Beliavsky

Quoting from https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/about/:

The Craft of Coding discusses aspects of programming – coding, testing, style, algorithms, problem solving. It focuses predominantly on coding in C, Python, Julia, Processing, Ada, and the legacy languages Fortran and Cobol.

Fortran definitely has the perception of Cobol, something that you only use for legacy codes and not for new things and you generally try to move away from. We need to change that perception.

certik avatar Oct 28 '21 13:10 certik