Tutorials

There are a selection of geology tutorials from introductory to advanced levels covering a range of topics which together form a free online textbook.

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Below is the abstract of an example tutorial.

Programming Fortran 1

This tutorial is designed for those who have to learn Fortran. Not that Fortran is a bad language to learn and it is used extensively throughout the scientific community. However, it is often the first programming language scientists encounter, so this tutorial designed to give you the basics of the language, without (hopefully) the use of complicated paradigms or ideas.

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