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Tutorials

Tutorials on Fortran in general

ZEN of Fortran: A Path to discover Modern Fortran by Stefano Zaghi
Ten minutes to Setup Modern Fortran 2003/2008 with CB IDE on Windows
List of Fortran 90/95 tutorials at the Open Directory
Fortran 2018 Examples from SciVision
Modern Fortran in Science and Technology by Jonas Lindemann and Ola Dahlblom
Introduction to Advanced Fortran concentrates on F2003/F2008 aspects
Introduction to Fortran from the Grimme group
An introduction to the Fortran programming language by Reinhold Bader and Nisarg Patel
Fortran code modernization by Reinhold Bader
Modern Fortran Tutorial by Yutaka Masuda.
Fortran Modernisation Workshop, by Wadud Miah and Jon Gibson of NAG
Fortran 95 language features by Michael Metcalf.
FortranLecture notes from a class by Paul Tackley
Fortran 2003 and Beyond by Bill Long
Introduction to Fortran 95 and Numerical Computing: A Jump-Start for Scientists and Engineers by Adrian Sandu
Getting started with Fortran 90/95 by Jonas Lindemann and Ola Dahlblom
Introduction to Fortran, and Advanced Fortran, by David Apsley
An introduction to programming in Fortran 90 by the University of Durham Information Technology Service
Advanced Fortran 90/95 Programming by the University of Durham Information Technology Service
Programming in Fortran 95 by Rachael Padman
Fortran 90/95 Programming Manual by Tanja van Mourik
Brief Introduction to the Fortran 90 programming language by Anders Sandvik
Introduction to Fortran 90: An introduction Course for Novice Programmers by Rob Davies, Alan Rea, and Dimitris Tsaptsinos
Modern Programming Languages: Fortran90/95/2003/2008 by Lars Koesterke
Object-Oriented Programming in Fortran 2003 by Mark LeAir
State of the Art in Object Oriented Programming with Fortran by D. J. Worth
A Fortran 2003 introduction by examples by Gunnar Wollan
Modern Fortran Programming for Chemists and Physicists by Pekka Manninen
Introduction to Programming using Fortran95 by Ed Jorgensen
Fortran for Environmental Science by Brian Hanson - good introduction to modern Fortran
Scientific Programming in Fortran 2003: A tutorial including Object-Oriented Programming by Katherine Holcomb
Modern Fortran: Useful tools and techniques by Bálint Aradi
Example Fortran Programs by Mitch Richling
Modern Fortran by eric_t
Wikibooks Fortran - note incomplete and not entirely correct in places.
Introduction to Fortran90 Programming: Array Concepts by Nick Mclaren. Also Advanced Array Concepts and Modules, Make and Interfaces
A Comprehensive Fortran90 Programming Course from Liverpool University, downloadable as pdf
Fortran 90 Basics by Ching-Kuang Shene
An Introduction to Fortran Programming by John Burkardt – covers Fortran 90
User Notes on Fortran Programming - originally by Abraham Agay. This is now somewhat outdated and based mainly on Fortran 77, but still useful in parts.
High Performance Fortran - from Liverpool University
Stackoverflow - Q and A on Fortran.
Hottest Fortran questions - though not all of the questions have answers. (offline)
Fortran90 for Fortran77 Programmers by Clive Page
Improve your Fortran 77 programs using some Fortran 90 features by Ryo Furue
A Look at Fortran 90 from Lahey Computer Systems
Fortran 90: A Conversion Course for Fortran 77 Programmers by S Ramsden, F Lin, M A Pettipher, G S Noland, J M Brooke
Expanded description of Fortran 90/95 intrinsic procedures - supplements the book “Introduction to Fortran 90/95” by Stephen J. Chapman
Numerical Recipes in Fortran77 and Fortran90 - free on-line version of famous textbook by William Press et al.
Programming in Modern Fortran on Unix by Philipp Engel – introduction to programming in Fortran 2003, 2008, and 2018 on Unix
LRZ: Introduction to the Fortran Programming language comprehensive 3 day-course on using Fortran 95 (and up) in a scientific context established at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Bavaria. Includes skeleton exercises and solutions.
LRZ: Advanced Fortran Topics advanced course (5 days) on using Fortran 95 in a scientific context established at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Bavaria. Includes skeleton exercises and solutions.
Fortran-for-programmers by Geert Jan Bex
Fortran for Economists Ph.D. course, Spring 2014, by Pavel Brendler
Modern Fortran for Today and Tomorrow by Jeff Layton
Fortran tutorials: from installation to Object-oriented programming and openmp parallelization by Danny E.P. Vanpoucke
Fortran 95 for Fortran 77 Programmers by Bill Kleb
Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer by Bo Einarsson, Yurij Shokin, and P.L. Garrido
Overview about Fortran 90/95 for C/C++ programmers
Modern Fortran reference card by Michael Goerz
Modern Fortran for FORTRAN77 users by Jonathan Dursi
Introduction to Computer Programming Using Fortran 95 from a course presented by A C Marshall
Fortran 90/95 reference by Mark Gates
Walt Brainerd’s Fortran 90 programming tips Summary by Margarete Domingues
Transitioning to Fortran 90 for Scientific and Engineering Calculations by Robert J. Ribando and Mark J. Fisher
Fortran For C Programmers
Introduction to Scientific Programming in C++/Fortran 2003 by Victor Eijkhout
Introduction to the Fortran 2003 Standard by Tom Clune and Hamid Oloso
Advanced Features of F90 by Tom Clune
Fortran Cheatsheet by Sara Collins
Fortran Cheat Sheet by Stanislav Radkov
Fortran 95 by MJ Rutter
Introduction to Programming Using FORTRAN 95 by Janet A Nicholson
Introduction to Fortran95 Programming Part I by Deniz Savas – other parts here
Introduction to Fortran 90 by Daniel Brown
Computing with Fortran by Andreas Haselbacher
Fortran 90 for Beginners by Tadziu Hoffmann and Joachim Puls
Fortran 90 Tutorial by Michael Metcalf
Fortran Basics by Steve Brooks. Later handouts here
Compact Fortran 95 Language Summary by Jon Squire
A Simple Fortran Primer by Rosemary Mardling and Daniel Price. Also Introduction to modern Fortran (incl. Makefiles)
Introduction to Modern Fortran Programming by Chris MacMackin
Fortran 95/2003 Quick Reference Card by Tobias Burnus
M_intrinsics set of man(1) pages for the standard Fortran intrinsics, with a secondary goal of providing a tested working example program for each intrinsic, by urbanjost
A FORTRAN Primer by David A. Clarke
Introduction to Fortran by Drew Schmidt
Modern Fortran by Alexander B. Pacheco
An Introduction to Fortran Programming by Adam Brazier
Introduction to Fortran 95 by Sergey Yurchenko
Learn X in Y Minutes: Fortran
Getting started with Fortran
ACM Computing Seminar Fortran Guide by Zhifeng Deng
Introduction to Fortran & Scientific Programming by J. Kiefer
Introduction to Fortran 90 by Jian Tao
Neglected FORTRAN: Better use of f90 in scientific research by Drew McCormack
F90 in 15 Minutes
Fortran 90 Overview by J.E. Akin
Fortran 90 Features from the Ohio Supercomputer Center
Programming Tips! by Ashley Willis
Beginner’s guide to Fortran programming by Koh Meng Hock
Introduction to Fortran by James C. Helm
Mistakes in Fortran 90 Programs That Might Surprise You by Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Surprising behaviour of Fortran (90/95) by Arne Babenhauserheide
Numerical Analysis Software: Fortran, MATLAB, R, NumPy: a side-by-side reference sheet
Fortran Introduction for Matlab Programmers by Daniel R. Reynolds
Fortran Programming by Pranab Das
Fortran 2003, part 1, and other material by Lionel Guez
The F Programming Language Tastes Like Java by Walt Brainerd, David Epstein, and Richard Hendrickson
Quick Guide to Fortran by A.J. De-Gol
Writing Portable Fortran by Peter Klausler
Links to many tutorials (broken link)

Post-f90 Compiler manuals

Tutorials on mixed-language operations

Using objects across language boundaries: Exploring the limits of language interoperability and consistent API design by Sebastian Ehlert
Standardized Mixed Language Programming for Fortran and C by Bo Einarsson, Richard Hanson, and Tim Hopkins
Calling Fortran from C ScreenCast by Sukhbinder Singh
Interoperation of Fortran with C from PRACE Course: Advanced Fortran Topics
Interoperability with C in Fortran 2003 by Megan Damon
Interoperability with C (section of gfortran manual)
Fortran-C Interoperability by Hans Pabst
Interoperability with C in Fortran 2003 by Alexsandar Donev
Integrating Fortran and Java by Sukhbinder Singh
From MATLAB to FORTRAN 90/95: Contrasting MATLAB and Fortran

Extended Tutorials on coding with specific Fortran features

Working nicely with Fortran Namelists by Antoine Dauptain
Parameterized derived types in Fortran - introduction and Assessing code quality with the NAG Fortran compiler by Iain Barrass
Character handling in Fortran by Clive Page
Avoiding unnecessary recompilation of Fortran Modules by Daniel Grimwood.
How to use Stream Input/Output by Clive Page. Stream I/O is a Fortran 2003 feature now widely available.
Unicode Using Unicode encodings with Fortran
Scratch Files Tuning scratch space usage
Fortran bitmasks by Pierre de Buyl
Understanding Procedure Pointers in Modern Fortran by Vikas Sharma
Error handling in Fortran by Geert Jan Bex, part of a class on “Defensive Programming and Debugging”

Tutorials on Coarray Fortran

Coarray-tutorial by Thomas Koenig
Fortran 2008, 2018 coarrays and OpenMP by Anton Shterenlikht – also Parallel programming with Fortran 2008 and 2018 coarrays
Coarray Fortran Goes Mainstream: GCC 5.1 by Jonathan Dursi – Coarray examples on GitHub
Co-Array Fortran for parallel programming by Robert W. Numrich and John Reid
Using Coarray Fortran from Intel
Coarrays in GNU Fortran by Alessandro Fanfarillo
Fortran 2018 coarray quick start from SciVision
Coarray Fortran 2.0 by John Mellor-Crummey, Karthik Murthy, Dung Nguyen, Sriraj Paul, Scott Warren, and Chaoran Yang. Also Coarray Fortran 2.0: A Productive Language for Scalable Scientific Computing
Additional Parallel Features in Fortran: An Overview of ISO/IEC TS 18508 by Reinhold Bader
Combining Object-Oriented Techniques with Co-arrays in Fortran 2008 by Robert W. Numrich
Introduction to Co-Array Fortran by Robert W. Numrich
A Co-Array Fortran Tutorial by Robert W. Numrich
Coarrays by Andy Vaught. Also Complete Compendium on Cooperative Computing using Coarrays
Fortran 2015 and Coarrays in GNU Fortran by Salvatore Filippone
Parallel Programming with Coarray Fortran by David Henty, Alan Simpson, Harvey Richardson, Bill Long, and Nathan Wichmann.
Coarray Fortran (Wikipedia)
Essential Guide to Distributed Memory Coarray Fortran with the Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux
How to Use Coarray Fortran with MPI I/O by Amasaki Shinobu

Scientific and Parallel Computing

Jacobi method: From a naïve implementation to a modern Fortran multithreaded one (2025) by Jean-Christophe Loiseau
OpenMP for GPU: an introduction (2023) by Olga Abramkina, Rémy Dubois, and Thibaut Véry
Introduction to the Message Passing Interface (MPI) (2023) by Rolf Rabenseifner
Using Fortran Standard Parallel Programming for GPU Acceleration (2022) by Miko Stulajter et al.
OpenACC Programming and Best Practices Guide (2022), by Jeff Larkin et al.
Making use of the Nvidia HPC SDK to use GPUs from Fortran on Myriad (2021) by Owain Kenway
Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing, Parallel Programming for Science and Engineering Using MPI, OpenMP, and the PETSc library and Advanced Features of MPI-3 and MPI-4 by Victor Eijkhout
Parallelism with Open MP by Heather Ratcliffe and Chris Brady
Introduction to MPI by Heather Ratcliffe and Chris Brady
MPI Cheatsheet and OpenMP Cheatsheet by Sara Collins
Large Scale Sparse Linear Algebra by P. Amestoy et al.
Multicore and Multicore programming with OpenMP by Alfredo Buttari
OpenMP Application Programming Interface Examples Version 5.0.1 – June 2020
Topics in Computing for Astronomy: Parallel Programming with OpenMP (I) by Rich Townsend
Accelerating Fortran DO CONCURRENT with GPUs and the NVIDIA HPC SDK By Guray Ozen and Graham Lopez
Using Tensor Cores in CUDA Fortran by Greg Ruetsch
Parallel Programming in Fortran 95 using OpenMP by Miguel Hermanns
RS/6000 SP: Practical MPI Programming Yukiya Aoyama and Jun Nakano of IBM
Explicit Vector Programming in Fortran from Intel, published in 2018
Interfacing with OpenCL from Modern Fortran for Highly Parallel Workloads by Laurence Kedward
Computational Physics: A Practical Introduction to Computational Physics and Scientific Computing by ‪Konstantinos N. Anagnostopoulos

Tutorials on debuggers and compiler tools

Fortran debugging with VSCode and Docker
Fortran Debugging Introduction by Andres Perez Hortal
Locating uninitialised data in floating point computation by David P. Barker
How to Debug Fortran Code with GDB by Jonathan Laver and Mark Williamson
Compiler and tools tricks by Arnaud Desitter
GDB Cheat Sheet by Marc Haisenko

Tutorials on package interfaces to Fortran

How to use PGPLOT with Fortran 95 on Windows-XP by Clive Page
How to create PGPLOT Fortran programs with Intel compiler? by Sukhbinder Singh
Using PLPLOT with Fortran (2021) by Vikas Sharma
How to use DISLIN to create a GUI for Fortran programs by Clive Page
Fortran DLL and Excel -a 4 step video tutorial by Sukhbinder Singh

Tutorials on specific topics

Creating a Conda package from Fortran using fpm and rattler-build by Sam Harrison. Also Creating a Conda package for a project with Fortran and Python code
High Performance Object-oriented Fortran by Charles D. Norton, Viktor K. Decyk, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski
How to modernize old Fortran programs
How to setup gfortran with CodeBlocks IDE - a tutorial shows step by step installation of gfortran and Code Blocks Fortran IDE on Windows.
How to create fortran dll in commandline with intel fortran compiler? by Sukhbinder Singh
How to create Fortran DLL in Visual Studio with Intel Fortran compiler? by Sukhbinder Singh
OpenMP 3.1 API Fortran Syntax Quick Reference Card
Computational techniques in animal breeding by Ignacy Misztal. First 50 pages are a Fortran tutorial.
Scope in Fortran 90
Using the GNU debugger (gdb) by Matt Probert
Dealing with Imperfect Fortran Compilers by Jeff Hammond

Fortran 77

Interactive Fortran 77: A Hands on Approach, 2nd ed. by Ian D Chivers and Jane Sleightholme
Fortran 77 tutorial by Erik Boman
Programming Basics - FORTRAN 77
Introduction to programming in Fortran 77 for students of Science and Engineering by Roman Gr¨oger
Professional Programmer’s Guide to Fortran77 by Clive G. Page
A Summary of Fortran by Nelson F. Beebe
Collected Fortran Wisdom
Introduction to Fortran 77 for Computational Physics by Tiffany Fields
Introduction to FORTRAN by N. West

Pre-f90 Compiler manuals

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