The Political Physicist

 The ramblings of a left-wing research software engineer…


Articles with tag “Programming”

FORD: FORtran Documentation

Over Christmas break I’ve been working on this project to produce documentation for Fortran programs. I’ve (just) managed to finish it before school starts again! Here is the README for it, containing the documentation which I wrote. You can find the code on Github.

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A (Not as Brief as I’d Hoped) Fortran Tutorial

Fortran, which stands for FORmula TRANslator, is the oldest high level programming language and remains, albeit with significant improvements, one of the main languages used by physicists. Most computational physics is done using Fortran and this is the language typically used in SMU’s Computational Methods for Physicists class. This introduction will show you how to use various useful features of the language in its modern form. It will do this by defining a problem which we wish a program to solve and then showing how to write such a program.

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What I Did Over Christmas Break

Thanks to the wonders of the Internet I now watch almost all movies and TV shows via my computer using an HDMI cable to play them on my television set. The problem with this arrangement is that it prevents me from using my computer for anything else while the video is playing. So, with the extra time I have over the Christmas break I set to work designing a program that, when paired with a Raspberry Pi will allow me to over come this. I present to you: Conetroller.

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C. MacMackin
I am a research software engineer, writing code for scientists working on fusion energy. I am also an active member of the Prospect trade union.