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Tutorials on Fortran in general

• ZEN of Fortran: A Path to discover Modern Fortran by Stefano Zaghi
• Ten minutes to Setup Modern Fortran 2003/2008 with CB IDE on Windows
• List of Fortran 90/95 tutorials at the Open Directory
• Fortran 2018 Examples from SciVision
• Modern Fortran in Science and Technology by Jonas Lindemann and Ola Dahlblom
• Introduction to Advanced Fortran concentrates on F2003/F2008 aspects
• Introduction to Fortran from the Grimme group
• An introduction to the Fortran programming language by Reinhold Bader and Nisarg Patel
• Fortran code modernization by Reinhold Bader
• Modern Fortran Tutorial by Yutaka Masuda.
• Fortran Modernisation Workshop, by Wadud Miah and Jon Gibson of NAG
• Fortran 95 language features by Michael Metcalf.
• FortranLecture notes from a class by Paul Tackley
• Fortran 2003 and Beyond by Bill Long
• Introduction to Fortran 95 and Numerical Computing: A Jump-Start for Scientists and Engineers by Adrian Sandu
• Getting started with Fortran 90/95 by Jonas Lindemann and Ola Dahlblom
• Introduction to Fortran, and Advanced Fortran, by David Apsley
• An introduction to programming in Fortran 90 by the University of Durham Information Technology Service
• Advanced Fortran 90/95 Programming by the University of Durham Information Technology Service
• Programming in Fortran 95 by Rachael Padman
• Fortran 90/95 Programming Manual by Tanja van Mourik
• Brief Introduction to the Fortran 90 programming language by Anders Sandvik
• Introduction to Fortran 90: An introduction Course for Novice Programmers by Rob Davies, Alan Rea, and Dimitris Tsaptsinos
• Modern Programming Languages: Fortran90/95/2003/2008 by Lars Koesterke
• Object-Oriented Programming in Fortran 2003 by Mark LeAir
• State of the Art in Object Oriented Programming with Fortran by D. J. Worth
• A Fortran 2003 introduction by examples by Gunnar Wollan
• Modern Fortran Programming for Chemists and Physicists by Pekka Manninen
• Introduction to Programming using Fortran95 by Ed Jorgensen
• Fortran for Environmental Science by Brian Hanson - good introduction to modern Fortran
• Scientific Programming in Fortran 2003: A tutorial including Object-Oriented Programming by Katherine Holcomb
• Modern Fortran: Useful tools and techniques by Bálint Aradi
• Example Fortran Programs by Mitch Richling
• Modern Fortran by eric_t
• Wikibooks Fortran - note incomplete and not entirely correct in places.
• Introduction to Fortran90 Programming: Array Concepts by Nick Mclaren. Also Advanced Array Concepts and Modules, Make and Interfaces
• A Comprehensive Fortran90 Programming Course from Liverpool University, downloadable as pdf
• Fortran 90 Basics by Ching-Kuang Shene
• An Introduction to Fortran Programming by John Burkardt – covers Fortran 90
• User Notes on Fortran Programming - originally by Abraham Agay. This is now somewhat outdated and based mainly on Fortran 77, but still useful in parts.
• High Performance Fortran - from Liverpool University
• Stackoverflow - Q and A on Fortran.
• Hottest Fortran questions - though not all of the questions have answers. (offline)
• Fortran90 for Fortran77 Programmers by Clive Page
• Improve your Fortran 77 programs using some Fortran 90 features by Ryo Furue
• A Look at Fortran 90 from Lahey Computer Systems
• Fortran 90: A Conversion Course for Fortran 77 Programmers by S Ramsden, F Lin, M A Pettipher, G S Noland, J M Brooke
• Expanded description of Fortran 90/95 intrinsic procedures - supplements the book "Introduction to Fortran 90/95" by Stephen J. Chapman
• Numerical Recipes in Fortran77 and Fortran90 - free on-line version of famous textbook by William Press et al.
• Programming in Modern Fortran on Unix by Philipp Engel – introduction to programming in Fortran 2003, 2008, and 2018 on Unix
• LRZ: Introduction to the Fortran Programming language comprehensive 3 day-course on using Fortran 95 (and up) in a scientific context established at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Bavaria. Includes skeleton exercises and solutions.
• LRZ: Advanced Fortran Topics advanced course (5 days) on using Fortran 95 in a scientific context established at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Bavaria. Includes skeleton exercises and solutions.
• Fortran-for-programmers by Geert Jan Bex
• Fortran for Economists Ph.D. course, Spring 2014, by Pavel Brendler
• Modern Fortran for Today and Tomorrow by Jeff Layton
• Fortran tutorials: from installation to Object-oriented programming and openmp parallelization by Danny E.P. Vanpoucke
• Fortran 95 for Fortran 77 Programmers by Bill Kleb
• Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer by Bo Einarsson, Yurij Shokin, and P.L. Garrido
• Overview about Fortran 90/95 for C/C++ programmers
• Modern Fortran reference card by Michael Goerz
• Modern Fortran for FORTRAN77 users by Jonathan Dursi
• Introduction to Computer Programming Using Fortran 95 from a course presented by A C Marshall
• Fortran 90/95 reference by Mark Gates
• Walt Brainerd’s Fortran 90 programming tips Summary by Margarete Domingues
• Transitioning to Fortran 90 for Scientific and Engineering Calculations by Robert J. Ribando and Mark J. Fisher
• Fortran For C Programmers
• Introduction to Scientific Programming in C++/Fortran 2003 by Victor Eijkhout
• Introduction to the Fortran 2003 Standard by Tom Clune and Hamid Oloso
• Advanced Features of F90 by Tom Clune
• Fortran Cheatsheet by Sara Collins
• Fortran Cheat Sheet by Stanislav Radkov
• Fortran 95 by MJ Rutter
• Introduction to Programming Using FORTRAN 95 by Janet A Nicholson
• Introduction to Fortran95 Programming Part I by Deniz Savas – other parts here
• Introduction to Fortran 90 by Daniel Brown
• Computing with Fortran by Andreas Haselbacher
• Fortran 90 for Beginners by Tadziu Hoffmann and Joachim Puls
• Fortran 90 Tutorial by Michael Metcalf
• Fortran Basics by Steve Brooks. Later handouts here
• Compact Fortran 95 Language Summary by Jon Squire
• A Simple Fortran Primer by Rosemary Mardling and Daniel Price. Also Introduction to modern Fortran (incl. Makefiles)
• Introduction to Modern Fortran Programming by Chris MacMackin
• Fortran 95/2003 Quick Reference Card by Tobias Burnus
• M_intrinsics set of man(1) pages for the standard Fortran intrinsics, with a secondary goal of providing a tested working example program for each intrinsic, by urbanjost
• A FORTRAN Primer by David A. Clarke
• Introduction to Fortran by Drew Schmidt
• Modern Fortran by Alexander B. Pacheco
• An Introduction to Fortran Programming by Adam Brazier
• Introduction to Fortran 95 by Sergey Yurchenko
• Learn X in Y Minutes: Fortran
• Getting started with Fortran
• ACM Computing Seminar Fortran Guide by Zhifeng Deng
• Introduction to Fortran & Scientific Programming by J. Kiefer
• Introduction to Fortran 90 by Jian Tao
• Neglected FORTRAN: Better use of f90 in scientific research by Drew McCormack
• F90 in 15 Minutes
• Fortran 90 Overview by J.E. Akin
• Fortran 90 Features from the Ohio Supercomputer Center
• Programming Tips! by Ashley Willis
• Beginner’s guide to Fortran programming by Koh Meng Hock
• Introduction to Fortran by James C. Helm
• Mistakes in Fortran 90 Programs That Might Surprise You by Boleslaw K. Szymanski
• Surprising behaviour of Fortran (90/95) by Arne Babenhauserheide
• Numerical Analysis Software: Fortran, MATLAB, R, NumPy: a side-by-side reference sheet
• Fortran Introduction for Matlab Programmers by Daniel R. Reynolds
• Fortran Programming by Pranab Das
• Fortran 2003, part 1, and other material by Lionel Guez
• The F Programming Language Tastes Like Java by Walt Brainerd, David Epstein, and Richard Hendrickson
• Quick Guide to Fortran by A.J. De-Gol
• Writing Portable Fortran by Peter Klausler
• Links to many tutorials (broken link)

Compiler manuals

• Using GNU Fortran
• NAG Fortran Compiler, Release 6.1
• Intel® Fortran Language Reference
• PGI Compilers & Tools Fortran Reference Guide (2018)
• Absoft Fortran Language Reference Manual
• Salford FTN95 User’s Guide
• Cray Fortran Reference Manual (S-3901) 8.6; current
• Lahey Fujitsu Fortran 95 Language Reference
• IBM XL Fortran for AIX, V16.1 Language Reference
• Oracle Developer Studio 12.6: Fortran User’s Guide
• HP Fortran Programmer’s Reference, Fourth Edition (2003)
• NVIDIA HPC Compilers User’s Guide
• Flang - the Fortran Compiler
• g95
• Arm Fortran Compiler Reference Guide
• Using and Porting GNU Fortran (g77)
• Sun Microsystems FORTRAN 77 4.0 User’s Guide (1995)
• Lahey Fortran 90 Language Reference (1994)
• Hewlett Packard FORTRAN 77 Reference Manual (1992)
• Univac OS 1100 ASCII FORTRAN Programming Reference Manual (1991)
• CONVEX FORTRAN Optimization Guide (1992)
• CM (Connection Machine) Fortran Programming Guide (1991)
• Cray CFT77 Reference Manual (1988)
• Cray CFT77 Brochure (1986)
• TOPS-10/TOPS-20 FORTRAN Language Manual (Digital) (1985)
• FORTRAN Extended Version 4 to FORTRAN Version 5 Conversion Aid Program, from Control Data Corporation (1983)
• FORTRAN Language Manual for UniPlus+, from UniSoft Systems (1983)
• FORTRAN Compiler by Microsoft (for the IBM Personal Computer)(1982)
• PRIME: The Fortran Programmer’s Guide (1979)
• IBM Series/1 FORTRAN IV Language Reference (1977)
• Data General: User’s Manual FORTRAN IV (1974)
• Control Data Corporation FORTRAN Extended Reference Manual (1971)
• 4K FORTRAN Programmer’s Reference Manual for the PDP-8 (1969)
• Univac 1107 FORTRAN (1966)
• FOR TRANSIT Automatic Coding System for the IBM 650 Data Processing System (1959)
• Reference Manual FORTRAN II for the IBM 704 Data Processing System (1958)
• The FORTRAN Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704 EDPM (1956)

Tutorials on specific topics

• Creating a Conda package from Fortran using fpm and rattler-build by Sam Harrison. Also Creating a Conda package for a project with Fortran and Python code
• Using objects across language boundaries: Exploring the limits of language interoperability and consistent API design by Sebastian Ehlert
• Working nicely with Fortran Namelists by Antoine Dauptain
• Parameterized derived types in Fortran - introduction and Assessing code quality with the NAG Fortran compiler by Iain Barrass
• Character handling in Fortran by Clive Page
• Standardized Mixed Language Programming for Fortran and C by Bo Einarsson, Richard Hanson, and Tim Hopkins
• High Performance Object-oriented Fortran by Charles D. Norton, Viktor K. Decyk, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski
• Fortran debugging with VSCode and Docker
• How to use PGPLOT with Fortran 95 on Windows-XP by Clive Page
• How to use DISLIN to create a GUI for Fortran programs by Clive Page
• Avoiding unnecessary recompilation of Fortran Modules by Daniel Grimwood.
• How to use Stream Input/Output by Clive Page. Stream I/O is a Fortran 2003 feature now widely available.
• How to modernize old Fortran programs
• How to setup gfortran with CodeBlocks IDE - a tutorial shows step by step installation of gfortran and Code Blocks Fortran IDE on Windows.
• Integrating Fortran and Java by Sukhbinder Singh
• Fortran DLL and Excel -a 4 step video tutorial by Sukhbinder Singh
• Calling Fortran from C ScreenCast by Sukhbinder Singh
• How to create fortran dll in commandline with intel fortran compiler? by Sukhbinder Singh
• How to create PGPLOT Fortran programs with Intel compiler? by Sukhbinder Singh
• How to create Fortran DLL in Visual Studio with Intel Fortran compiler? by Sukhbinder Singh
• OpenMP 3.1 API Fortran Syntax Quick Reference Card
• Computational techniques in animal breeding by Ignacy Misztal. First 50 pages are a Fortran tutorial.
• Compiler and tools tricks by Arnaud Desitter
• Fortran bitmasks by Pierre de Buyl
• Interoperation of Fortran with C from PRACE Course: Advanced Fortran Topics
• Interoperability with C in Fortran 2003 by Megan Damon
• Interoperability with C (section of gfortran manual)
• Fortran-C Interoperability by Hans Pabst
• Interoperability with C in Fortran 2003 by Alexsandar Donev
• Understanding Procedure Pointers in Modern Fortran by Vikas Sharma
• Using PLPLOT with Fortran (2021) by Vikas Sharma
• Scope in Fortran 90
• Error handling in Fortran by Geert Jan Bex, part of a class on "Defensive Programming and Debugging"
• How to Debug Fortran Code with GDB by Jonathan Laver and Mark Williamson
• Using the GNU debugger (gdb) by Matt Probert
• GDB Cheat Sheet by Marc Haisenko
• Fortran Debugging Introduction by Andres Perez Hortal
• Locating uninitialised data in floating point computation by David P. Barker
• Dealing with Imperfect Fortran Compilers by Jeff Hammond
• From MATLAB to FORTRAN 90/95: Contrasting MATLAB and Fortran

Tutorials on Coarray Fortran

• Coarray-tutorial by Thomas Koenig
• Fortran 2008, 2018 coarrays and OpenMP by Anton Shterenlikht – also Parallel programming with Fortran 2008 and 2018 coarrays
• Coarray Fortran Goes Mainstream: GCC 5.1 by Jonathan Dursi – Coarray examples on GitHub
• Co-Array Fortran for parallel programming by Robert W. Numrich and John Reid
• Using Coarray Fortran from Intel
• Coarrays in GNU Fortran by Alessandro Fanfarillo
• Fortran 2018 coarray quick start from SciVision
• Coarray Fortran 2.0 by John Mellor-Crummey, Karthik Murthy, Dung Nguyen, Sriraj Paul, Scott Warren, and Chaoran Yang. Also Coarray Fortran 2.0: A Productive Language for Scalable Scientific Computing
• Additional Parallel Features in Fortran: An Overview of ISO/IEC TS 18508 by Reinhold Bader
• Combining Object-Oriented Techniques with Co-arrays in Fortran 2008 by Robert W. Numrich
• Introduction to Co-Array Fortran by Robert W. Numrich
• A Co-Array Fortran Tutorial by Robert W. Numrich
• Coarrays by Andy Vaught. Also Complete Compendium on Cooperative Computing using Coarrays
• Fortran 2015 and Coarrays in GNU Fortran by Salvatore Filippone
• Parallel Programming with Coarray Fortran by David Henty, Alan Simpson, Harvey Richardson, Bill Long, and Nathan Wichmann.
• Coarray Fortran (Wikipedia)
• Essential Guide to Distributed Memory Coarray Fortran with the Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux
• How to Use Coarray Fortran with MPI I/O by Amasaki Shinobu

Scientific and Parallel Computing

• OpenMP for GPU: an introduction (2023) by Olga Abramkina, Rémy Dubois, and Thibaut Véry
• Introduction to the Message Passing Interface (MPI) (2023) by Rolf Rabenseifner
• Using Fortran Standard Parallel Programming for GPU Acceleration (2022) by Miko Stulajter et al.
• OpenACC Programming and Best Practices Guide (2022), by Jeff Larkin et al.
• Making use of the Nvidia HPC SDK to use GPUs from Fortran on Myriad (2021) by Owain Kenway
• Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing, Parallel Programming for Science and Engineering Using MPI, OpenMP, and the PETSc library and Advanced Features of MPI-3 and MPI-4 by Victor Eijkhout
• Parallelism with Open MP by Heather Ratcliffe and Chris Brady
• Introduction to MPI by Heather Ratcliffe and Chris Brady
• MPI Cheatsheet and OpenMP Cheatsheet by Sara Collins
• Large Scale Sparse Linear Algebra by P. Amestoy et al.
• Multicore and Multicore programming with OpenMP by Alfredo Buttari
• OpenMP Application Programming Interface Examples Version 5.0.1 – June 2020
• Topics in Computing for Astronomy: Parallel Programming with OpenMP (I) by Rich Townsend
• Accelerating Fortran DO CONCURRENT with GPUs and the NVIDIA HPC SDK By Guray Ozen and Graham Lopez
• Using Tensor Cores in CUDA Fortran by Greg Ruetsch
• Parallel Programming in Fortran 95 using OpenMP by Miguel Hermanns
• RS/6000 SP: Practical MPI Programming Yukiya Aoyama and Jun Nakano of IBM
• Explicit Vector Programming in Fortran from Intel, published in 2018
• Interfacing with OpenCL from Modern Fortran for Highly Parallel Workloads by Laurence Kedward
• Computational Physics: A Practical Introduction to Computational Physics and Scientific Computing by ‪Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos

Fortran 77

• Interactive Fortran 77: A Hands on Approach, 2nd ed. by Ian D Chivers and Jane Sleightholme
• Fortran 77 tutorial by Erik Boman
• Programming Basics - FORTRAN 77
• Introduction to programming in Fortran 77 for students of Science and Engineering by Roman Gr ̈oger
• Professional Programmer’s Guide to Fortran77 by Clive G. Page
• A Summary of Fortran by Nelson F. Beebe
• Collected Fortran Wisdom
• Introduction to Fortran 77 for Computational Physics by Tiffany Fields
• Introduction to FORTRAN by N. West

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