Fortran · Medium

Lesson 1 · On the house

Module privacy

private by default, public lists, protected variables, and clean APIs.

Lesson 2

Generic interfaces

interface blocks with module procedure, overloading by type, and assumed rank sketch.

Lesson 3

Operator overloading

interface operator(+), defined operators like .dot., and assignment(=).

Lesson 4

Pointers and targets

pointer and target attributes, => association, associated, and nullify.

Lesson 5

Recursion

recursive procedures, result names, and recursive data walks.

Lesson 6

Type-bound procedures

procedure bindings, pass object dummy, class(t) this, and generic bindings.

Lesson 7

Inheritance and polymorphism

extends, overriding, class(t) variables, and select type.

Lesson 8

Array sections and reshaping

Strided sections, vector subscripts, pack/unpack, spread, and cshift.

Lesson 9

Error handling

stat and errmsg on allocate, iostat and iomsg on I/O, and error stop.

Lesson 10

move_alloc and allocatable components

Efficient growth with move_alloc, deep copies, and automatic deallocation.