C for Fortran Programmers

About this book

Using your existing knowledge of Fortran C for Fortran Programmers gets you up and running with C quickly. By learning how individual elements of a Fortran program compare and translate into C this book helps you make a smooth transition to C and object-oriented concepts. Best-selling author and C authority Ira Pohl uses his trademark "dissection" technique to illustrate the underlying structure of programs and help you understand design trade-offs. Scientific and engineering coding examples are featured throughout the text. The book provides a smooth transition to C and object-oriented programming for programmers already familiar with Fortran and includes C to Fortran equivalencies making it easy to move from one language to another. Engineering computations are featured throughout; important scientific types such as complex number vector and polynomial are implemented. It also incorporates the proposed ANSI C Standard including bool namespaces and the STL library and features a chapter on the use of STL and efficient generic programming. All program code is fully tested and available on the World Wide Web.