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
  • Unixhelp, a nice compilation of information about the operating system
  • Unix FAQ

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

• E-Mail
  • Getting started with the Unix mail utility
  • Emacs mail facilities (mail [send], Rmail [receive]) from the Gnu Emacs Manual
  • 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 postscript

• Document Preparation
  • Setting up a homepage from your class account.
  • A Beginner's Guide to HTML from NCSA
  • A putative Complete Guide to HTML from Emory University
  • Web-page-design fashion statements

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

• Programming languages
  • An intro to C geared toward homework exercises
  • C programming language: an introduction from the CS department
  • The manual for the gnu c compiler (gcc)
  • C++ FAQ

  • Fortran: an introduction from the CS department
  • Fortran FAQ
  • Fortran 90

  • Perl: a tutorial

• Make and makefiles
  • An introduction to make and makefiles
  • The manual for gnu make, by Richard M. Stallman and Roland McGrath.

• Scientific Computing
  • Differential equations
  • Numerical Recipes home page
  • Overview of numerical algebra

• Mathematical libraries
  • Cornell tutorial on ESSL
  • IBM ESSL page
  • Cornell tutorial IMSL
  • Visual Numerics, Inc. IMSL Page

• Statistics
  • Stat-LIB

• Computational science
  • An intoduction to computational science

• Maple
  • Local Maple information
  • Maple homepage (product information)
  • YAHOO! category

bcb./wk. updated 08-Nov-98.