1.   Introductory Material

• What type of course is it?
• Why to study Fortran?
• Where is it still used?

• Fortran as a language of computational sciences
• Numerical methods as subject area for which this course is an introduction to
• Large scale computing examples - see the Top 500 list

• Textbook based material:
• • Number systems
  • Binary representation of numbers
  • • Integers
    • Floating-point numbers

• Homework 2
• • Textbook
  • Pages: 11-12
  • Exercises: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
  • Due by: Wednesday January 29, 2003 23:55

• Homework 3
• • Find and send to me:
  • • a) two links to material that will help you and your class-mates deal with Fortran 90/50
    • b) one link to material related to the IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic standard
  • Due by: Wednesday January 29, 2003 23:55

Reading assignment: pages v-12