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Advanced FORTRAN 77+ Programming

Course: T117 (5 Days)

Prerequisites:

One year programming experience in FORTRAN and completion of course T152.

Description:

Course T117 provides the FORTRAN 77+ user with an introduction to advanced programming techniques.

Upon completion of the this course, the student will be able to:

  • Define and use character data types including substrings and arrays
  • Use I/O and format statements to perform standard input/output operations
  • Construct, access, and use subroutines and function subprograms
  • Use the symbolic debugger to trace program execution
  • Initialize local commons using a block data subprogram
  • Evaluate FORTRAN compiler and cataloger output
  • Use compiler options and directives to manage the compilation environment
  • Formulate code to link FORTRAN programs to Assembly subroutines
  • Incorporate inline coding with a FORTRAN main program

Note: The following FORTRAN 77+ features will be covered in Courses T142/T152: OPEN, CLOSE, INQUIRE, and BUFFERIN/OUT