This is an evolving list of reference books which you may find useful.

General computational physics:

* Burden, R. L. & Faires, J. D. 1993 Numerical Analysis (Boston: PWS Publishing).

Landau, R. H. & Páez, M. J. 1997 Computational Physics : problem solving with computers (New York: John Wiley & Sons).

* Press, W. H., et al. 1988, Numerical Recipes in C : the art of scientific computing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Unix:

Abrahams, P. W. & Larson, B. R. 1992, Unix for the Impatient (Reading: Addison-Wesley).

Programming languages:

Kernighan, B. & Ritchie, D. M. 1988, The C Programming Language (Englewood Cliff: Prentice Hall).

Oualline, S. 1995 Practical C++ Programming (Cambridge: O'Reilly & Associates).

Wall, L., Christiansen, T., & Schwartz, R. L. 1996, Programming Perl (Cambridge: O'Reilly & Associates).

Document Preparation

Buerger, D. J. 1990, Latex for Engineers and Scientists (New York: McGraw-Hill)

Lamport, L. 1986, Latex : a document preparation system (Reading: Addison-Wesley).