Bob Yantosca
Software Engineer
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group
Harvard University
Programming Resources
IDL (Interactive Data Language) is a general-purpose programming language used primarily for scientific visualization. IDL is is quickly becoming the language of choice in the fields of Medical Imaging, Astronomy, Space Physics, Earth Sciences, and Atmospheric Sciences.
- Research Systems, Inc. (the makers of IDL)
- Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming (David Fanning's Web Site)
- IDL Page at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
- Martin Schultz's IDL Tutorial (PDF Format)
- IDL Astronomy User's Library
- JHU/APL/S1R IDL routines page
Fortran isn't quite dead yet! It's getting better! The release of Fortran 90 corrected many of the shortcomings of its predecessor, FORTRAN 77. In fact, Fortran 90 has become the de facto standard for numerical computation and high-performance parallel computing. Future releases of Fortran are planned, and some vendors are already selling Fortran 95 and Fortran 2000 compilers. The following are some of the best web links that I've found pertaining to the Fortran language.
- User Notes on FORTRAN Programming (a tutorial)
- Fortran 90 for the FORTRAN 77 Programmer (a tutorial)
- SciCon Fortran 90 Tutorial at NASA/Ames
- Multiprocessing w/ Fortran 90 (Boston U. Tutorial)
- Multiprocessing w/ OpenMP directives (Boston U. Tutorial)
- Introduction to Parallel Processing on SGI platform (Boston U. tutorial)
- Fortran WWW Sites
- Fortran 90 Home Page at King's College, London
- Resources for learning Fortran 90
- Object Oriented Fortran 90 Programming
- High Performance FORTRAN (a paper)
- The Perils of Floating Point by Bruce M. Bush
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