FORTRAN 77 and Scientific Visualization

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FORTRAN 77 and Scientific Visualization

• Contact info
• Text reminder
• Tuition
• Schedule plan (rough)
• No grade / tests
• Programs
• Project

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History of FORTRAN

• Parent of all languages

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More on FORTRAN

• Still popular with scientists and engineers
  (moving towards F90)
• Intended for mathematical applications/computation
  
• FORmula TRANslator

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Computer overview

• CPU, monitor, keyboard, disk drives, mouse, CDs
• Binary / machine language
• Compilers vs. interpreters
• I/O

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Algorithmic development (control)

• Three basic structures
• Sequential
• Selection
• Repetition
• Modular

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Flowcharts

• Graphical representation of algorithm
• Examples

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Exercise

• Read radius print area and circumference
• Find max, min, and range

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Software Engineering

• Classic Life Cycle
• Problem analysis and specifications
• Algorithm development
• Program coding
• Program execution and testing
• Program maintenance

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Errors

• Syntactical vs. Semantic
• Compiler vs. You
• ltCTRLgt-C

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World of UNIX

• Type of operating system
• Based upon C (useful to know when shell
  scripting)
• Navigation commands
• cd
• cp
• mv
• find . -name ltname of filegt

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UNIX and files

• File info commands
• ls, ls -l
• more / less
• head / tail
• Printing
• lp -dltprinternamegt ltfilenamegt

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UNIX functions

• Good-to-know UNIX functions
• sort
• history
• convert
• cal
• chmod
• grep
• xv

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Helpful UNIX tools

• ltTABgt key
• w
• df -k
• man pages
• xclock
• gt