FORTRAN 90

Meissner, in his book Fortran 90, presents FORTRAN programming in the context of using the language as a tool for solving engineering or scientific problems. Students need to know which FORTRAN language features are more important/useful than others, and Meissner's explanations give students a good overview of key ideas. Meissner motivates his presentation of FORTRAN specifics through examples that show how the FORTRAN feature being discussed is used in the context of mathematical, scientific or engineering related problems (i.e. Fibonnaci sequence, factorials, Newton's Method, trigonometric functions, statistics, isotopes, polar form).