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recap and references

A brief overview of the material covered during this week, some references to additional information, and some Fortran-related humor.
You have reached the end of week 4. During this week, you learned about

  • best practices for coding,
  • Fortran coding idioms and coding style,
  • error handling in Fortran,
  • best practices for writing documentation,
  • the doxygen document generator,
  • how to use a profiler to identify performance bottlenecks,
  • hardware features such as vector instructions and caches, and how to exploit those to get optimal performance,
  • how to do I/O efficiently.

References

Although a few of the books listed here are fairly old, they are still quite relevant, you could call them timeless classics.

Books

  • Modern Fortran: style and usage, Norman S. Clerman and Walter Spector, Cambridge University Press, 2012
  • The practice of programming, Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike Addison-Wesley, 1999
  • Clean code: a handbook of agile software craftsmanship, Robert C. Martin, Prentice Hall, 2008
  • Write clean code and get rid of code smells with real life examples
  • Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software, Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides, Addison-Wesley, 1994
  • Refactoring: improving the design of existing code, Martin Fowler, Addison-Wesley, 1999

Articles

  • Exception handling in Fortran, Arjen Markus, Newsletter ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum, volume 32, issue 2, p. 7‒13, 2013

Online resources

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