CSC 117 Programming for Scientists and Engineers

Study Guide for Final Examination, August 16, 2002

• I might ask a simple question about the code you wrote for a programming project.
• Chapter 1.
  I will not emphasize material in Chapter 1, although you should know the basics. In particular, you need to know everything in the Fortran 90 Summary on pages 39-41.
• Chapter 2.
  I expect you to know almost everything in Chapter 2. I will not expect you to know all the intrinsic functions listed on page 102, but only abs, floor, int, max, min, mod, nint, real, sqrt.
• Chapter 3. Logical type.
  I expect you to know almost everything in Chapter 3.
  • Relational operators.
  • Logical operators.
  • Logical expressions.
  • Block if statement.
  • Logical if statement.
  • if-else if construct.
  • I will not test on the case construct.
• Chapter 4. Loops.
  • Counter-controlled loops. (Definite loops.)
  • do-exit construct.
  • do-while construct. (Page 253)
  • I will not test on cycle or named constructs.
• Chapter 5. Input/Output.
  • Format specifiers (three kinds).
  • Format descriptors.
    • iw
    • fw.d
    • a or aw
    • explicit character strings (output only)
    • tab descriptors
    • horizontal spacing
    • vertical spacing
    • scanning control
    • bn, bz (input only)
  • write statement.
  • read statement.
  • iostat.
  • open statement.
  • Internal files (using a character variable as the input or output stream).
• Chapters 6 and 7. Function subprograms.
  • Intrinsic functions. I expect you to know the meaning of each of the following intrinsic functions: abs, aint, floor, int, max, min, mod, nint, real, sqrt, size, lbound, ubound, trim, len, ichar, iachar.
  • Instrisic subroutines.
  • Actual arguments, dummy arguments.
  • Intent specifiers.
  • contains
  • Local variables.
  • Scope.
  • Type of a function, how to declare it.
  • Recursion.
  • Interfaces.
  • call statement.
• Chapters 8 and 9. Arrays.
  • Declaration of arrays.
  • Allocatable arrays.
  • Allocate, deallocate.
  • Array assignment.
    • from another array.
    • inside a loop.
    • array constants. (1-dimensional only).
    • implied do.
    • broadcast.
  • Subarrays.
  • Assumed shape.
  • Out-of-bounds subscripts.
• Additional topics.
  • Substrings (page 766).