PHYS 3730/6720	Introduction to Computers in Physics		FALL 2006

Getting started.

• how to get an account,
• how to log on,
• working in the X-windows environment, and
• the basics of Unix, emacs, and compiling C and Fortran.

Some potentially useful links.

• Unix
  • A unix quick reference sheet
  • Unix: an introduction from the CS department

• Emacs
  • An emacs quick-reference guide (in PDF)
  • The Gnu emacs manual from the CS department

• E-Mail
  • Getting started with the Unix mail utility
  • Emacs mail facilities (mail [send], Rmail [receive])
  • A PINE tutorial from the University of South Dakota

• Plotting utilities
  • SM examples based on class exercises.
  • The official SM tutorial
  • The SM manual in HTML

  • Gnuplot information
  • The Gnuplot manual in PDF

• Document Preparation
  • Setting up a homepage from your class account.
  • A tutprial for HTML
  • A putative Complete Guide to HTML from Emory University

  • An introduction to LaTeX based on the example given in lecture.
  • A LaTex help page from Emory University

• Programming languages
  • Tony Gaddis, Starting out with C++ "[This book] was very helpful and a good guide. It's fairly expensive, but if people want to learn the language, it could be a good place to go." (Thanks to Martin Earl.)
  • A C++ online textbook from Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in [C++/java/...]" series.
  • The manual for the gnu C/C++ compiler (gcc)
  • C++ tutorial

  • Fortran: an introduction from the CS department

  • Perl: a starting place

• Make and makefiles
  • An introduction to make and makefiles
  • The manual for gnu make.

• Scientific Computing
  • The Numerical Recipes homepage

• Mathematical libraries
  • NIST's GAMS search engine

• Statistics
  • Stat-LIB

• Maple
  • An intro to Maple
  • Maple homepage (product information)

Last updated: Tue Oct 17 07:15:46 MDT 2006