This introductory text is designed to teach FORTRAN as a first programming language. The text's applications-oriented approach motivates students by bringing engineering concepts to life. The author's proven five-step problem solving methodology, stressing top-down design techniques, is used throughout the book as an organizing principle for addressing and solving engineering problems with FORTRAN 77.

This text is suitable for a freshman level course in Introduction to Programming, in Engineering, Science, or Computer Science.