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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
4. Introduction to Programming
Authors : Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme
Published in: Introduction to Programming with Fortran
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
The aims of the chapter are:
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To introduce the idea that there is a wide class of problems that can be solved with a computer and, further, that there is a relationship between the kind of problem to be solved and the choice of programming language that is used.
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To give some of the reasons for the choice of Fortran.
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To introduce the fundamental components or kinds of statements to be found in a general purpose programming language.
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To introduce the three concepts of name, type and value.
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To illustrate the above with sample programs based on three of the five intrinsic data types:
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character, integer and real
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To introduce some of the formal syntactical rules of Fortran.