A book for a beginner wanting to learn programming

frank

Hello I am a mechanical engineer. Unfortunately in my university there are no many programming courses for the mechanical area. However with the years I had to learn the use of FEA packages, in the linear and non-linear fields (ansys). Since last year I have been involved in a company, and I had to learn some CFD codes (CFX primarly). Today I really know that the programming is the key to achieve good models and have a little of control of the model. I have suffered the limitations of be a non-programmer and only be a "user" of a package. On the other hand I want to apply for a postgraduate the next year and I want to know how to program for that date. I think that Fortran is one of the most important languages for scientific and engineering programming, but I want to hear your advise about other language. I am writing to this excellent forum to get a suggestions about a book for "learn by myself" in Fortran 95. Does anybody know about a book for a beginner? I think I will buy by amazon.com. Thank you in advance frank fjtl@yahoo.com