Computing for Engineers and Scientists with FORTRAN 77

This book is a college text book from my days at Purdue. It was used by the Engineering Department to learn Fortran. It was adequate in teaching the subject. Unlike programming books of today, this book's text is dense. The publisher packed more information in 350 pages than most modern programming books do in a 1000 pages. This book is laid out more like a novel without pictures. If you need to review Fortran, I'd recommend getting this book. I'd taken Fortran earlier from another text, and that book wasn't as informative as this text. There may be better books out there. But McCracken does a good job of presenting the subject. There are plenty of exercises and code examples. The author has you write programs to help you gain confidence that you've actually learned something. Though, C and C++ has nearly replaced Fortran, there still seems to be some need to learn Fortran. The only thing is, that when I learned Fortran, I did so on a main frame. Since code was compiled in batch mode, you had to wait hours for a printout. Writing a program then too k days compared to today with PCs and modern IDEs. If it weren't for the fact that programming was a waiting game back then, I may have chosen programming over engineering.