<p>Fortran seems to be an old language that isn't taught anymore, but I see quite a bit of lab groups still using this language. Is this still a good programming language to learn?</p>
<p>Also, what do you guys recommend I do in order to get better with programming in C? I will start a job soon in a few weeks and I suspect that I need to do some programming. I learned C, but haven't had a chance to use it much.</p>
<p>Fortran is ridiculously popular in the aerospace industry… I had no idea it was so widespread until I started working. Most of the Fortran 77 stuff has been converted to Fortran 90 over the last 10 years or so.</p>
<p>Still, C is a great code to learn. Try making a code to read in text files, parse the information, and then export bits and pieces to new files. You can add in math operations as well. Most of the coding I do is “brute force” coding since I’m an aero engineer… that means a lot of C console applications with simple uses, or MATLAB. I’ve never had to make any GUI’s, although I did have to modify one once.</p>
<p>Yeah, it seems that way in AE. Do you recommend that I learn it? </p>
<p>Should I find a bunch of book back of the chapter problems and try to do those to get more practice with C?</p>