6 Dec
2002
6 Dec
'02
11:25 a.m.
"Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink(a)verizon.net> wrote:
In high school, we used what I think was called
_The_FORTRAN_Coloring_Book_
(wasn't that what it was called Frank?). That's not the same thing is it?
No, that's a different book from _FORTRAN For Humans_.
Funny, I only remember boring data processing text books, like the one
that told us how to use a keypunch and how to interpret punched cards,
an important skill when I got to U of Maryland and found that the 029
keypunches in the basement of the CS building often did not have fresh
ribbons. (Bill and I attended the same high school, where there was
an HP 3000 Series II (upgraded to a Series III in 1980 I think) for
administrative and academic use.)
But then I might not have paid a FORTRAN text much attention, having
picked that up when we were supposed to be learning BASIC and being
more interested at that time in SPL/3000.
-Frank McConnell
6 Dec
6 Dec
11:58 a.m.
I think I still have 'McCracken on FORTRAN'. If anyone wants it for the
cost of mailing, I'll go up to the warehouse and check. In fact, I have
about two dozen titles that I will cheerfully give away (for the cost of
mailing), but refuse to throw away. I'll grab them this weekend and post a
list.
--John
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Subject: Re: Fortran for Humans Book?
"Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink(a)verizon.net> wrote:
In high school, we used what I think was called
_The_FORTRAN_Coloring_Book_
(wasn't that what it was called Frank?).
That's not the same thing is it?
No, that's a different book from _FORTRAN For Humans_.
Funny, I only remember boring data processing text books, like the one
that told us how to use a keypunch and how to interpret punched cards,
an important skill when I got to U of Maryland and found that the 029
keypunches in the basement of the CS building often did not have fresh
ribbons. (Bill and I attended the same high school, where there was
an HP 3000 Series II (upgraded to a Series III in 1980 I think) for
administrative and academic use.)
But then I might not have paid a FORTRAN text much attention, having
picked that up when we were supposed to be learning BASIC and being
more interested at that time in SPL/3000.
-Frank McConnell
7 Dec
7 Dec
2:15 p.m.
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, J.C.Wren wrote:
I think I still have 'McCracken on FORTRAN'.
That was the "standard" reference.
Recently one of my colleagues was having difficulty learning Spanish, so I
gave her a copy of McCracken in spanish.
One of the best tutorials to accompany McCracken was by Decima Anderson.
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