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Oct 20th, 2008

Hi, House,

I'm new to this house, i am computer science student in Nigeria. Please i want any one in the house to recommend a textbooks or any materials that will get me started on the following courses:

FORTRAN
BASIC
ALGORITHM

I appreciate ur responses.

Thanks.

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Oct 20th, 2008

Your chance of good advice about Fortran and BASIC materials are low; they are not very commonly used languages any more. A good recommendation about algorithms can't be given without knowing how much experience you have.

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Oct 20th, 2008

Fortran is widely used in scientific and engineering applications.
The fact there is a new ISO standard for it doing the rounds means that there's still a lot of interest in it.

Asking about it on a forum where there is no Fortran section is however not the smartest idea.

"basic" covers a whole multitude of sins - which in particular?

Also see
http://www.nist.gov/dads/
Books by Sedgewick on algorithms are good.