Compaq Visual Fortran | 
| Author: Norman Lawrence
Publisher: Digital Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 868555
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 462
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1
ISBN: 1555582494
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9781555582494
ASIN: 1555582494
Publication Date: December 21, 2001
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Product Description
Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications is the only book that shows developers how to create Windows applications using Visual Fortran software. It complements Digital Press's successful reference, the Digital Visual Fortran Programmer's Guide. Lawrence details development methods and techniques for creating Fortran applications for Windows, the platform upon which developers can use Compaq Visual Fortran (CVF; to be Intel Visual Fortran in the future) to create applications.
The book teaches CVF programming progressively, beginning with simple tasks and building up to writing professional-level Win32 applications. Readers will learn about the powerful new CVF graphical user interface, as well as the intricacies of Windows development from a CVF perspective. They can master QuickWin, the Win32 APIs including multiple document interfaces, and Open GL with 3D and interactive graphics.
Provides practical, step-by-step instructions for developing Visual Fortran applications
Only tutorial text for Compaq Visual Fortran (CVF)
Doesn't require the programmer to learn C or C++
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 The ONLY book that has it all July 29, 2008
Christopher Ray
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I started learning Fortran about a month ago and it was impossible to find documentation on how to build GUIs. Reading the MSN Library helped with background info, but didn't explain how to use anything with Fortran. This is the ONLY resource I could find that has complete explanations for making GUIs as nice as you want, depending on the time you put in. It is certainly not for someone without some background knowledge of windows and GUI elements and controls, but this book will teach you everything you need if you can follow it and work with the examples.
 Using Compaq Visual Fortran February 13, 2008
Jerry Prats (Warner Robins, Ga.)
To really understand the book (Compaq Visual Fortran) one must use the Fortran programming examples with the book (Companion Site )! I think the author did a very good job is making one dig out the meat of the text. I would also get the Digital Visual Fortran Programmers Guide (Michael Etzel and Karen Dickinson) if you are serious about the above subject matter.
 WHAT A CRUMMY BOOK!! March 1, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
You'll be confused by page 15. The author makes no attempt to teach windows programming for Fortran in a way anyone can understand. He seems to be highly impressed with his own sophisticated knowledge and wants all of us to know how smart he is. Unfortunately that doesn't do any good for us Fortran programmers who want to learn how to build Windows applications. The author will show us examples that combine dozens of different subject he (briefly) touched on in the text rather than an example that shows one or just a few concepts. It's confusing as hell. Unfortunately, this is probably the only book we'll ever get on building Fortran programs for Windows since so few people are interested in doing such a thing. Consequently the author will continue to make money of this miserable work. CAN ANY OF YOU OUT THERE WRITE A BETTER BOOK? PLEASE!
A great investment August 15, 2002
Simon C Drew (Queensland, Australia)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
For those die-hard Fortran programmers with no prior Windows programming experience, such as myself, this book is the perfect accompaniment to the CVF on-line programmers' guide and answers many of the lingering questions you may have after working through the CVF sample code. The great thing about this book is that all the examples discussed have the code freely available from the publisher's website, so that you can work through the concepts step-by-step in the book and then examine the nitty-gritty from the downloaded resources. Along-side Metcalf and Reid's "Fortran 90/95 explained", Norman Lawrence's "Compaq Visual Fortran: A Guide to Creating Windows Applications" is definintely one of my most valuable reference texts. Get the most out of your Visual Fortran software and stick this book in a prominent position on your shelf!
Yes, buy it. August 11, 2002
CWM de Leeuw (Nijmegen Netherlands)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Fortran is a very elegant mathematical developing language with periodical updates (Fortran 55, 66, 77, 88 but labeled 90/95, and now still waiting for ANSI 99 which will probably be labeled 2002). You don't need a whole library to grasp its possibilities and functions, while the mathematical and statistical libraries are incomparable. But in most manuals the use of Windows and graphics are underexposed, whereas many Fortran solutions for graphics and some for Windows exist to choose from.This is where Norman Lawrence comes in. I bought the latest print (C)2002. Not a general Fortran tutorial, but covering the necessary subjects to start immediately with Compaq Visual Fortran graphics and Windows, and with a nice Fortran programming style even a Guy-Like-Me could not improve too much (!!!). All sources available on the companion Web sites (Publisher, please pack these 90 separate files together). A rare must in the Fortran collection, as was the earlier Jones & Crabtree: Fortran Tools 1988 ISBN 0471619760 for string manipulation, file-i/o, lexical analysis in Fortran, a candidate for a reprint.
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