Physics 281 - Computational Physics
Wednesday/Friday Section
Fall 2008
Useful Links
Unix tutorials
This is a pretty big topic, and if you stick to the basic tools available on your desktop, you may be able to survive with minimal Unix instruction. Happily, we are not the only University trying to teach people about Unix. Here are some simple "getting started"
tutorials that I've found:
Mathworks --- MATLAB
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Matlab --- the Mathworks home page for Matlab, including
links to documentation and product information.
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Documentation --- the Matlab documentation page
which includes links to Matlab references, including the
Getting Started manual.
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See the following link to get into Matlab's student tutorial: Tutorial
Matlab tutorials
These are links to several tutorials about Matlab which have been put together at other universities. Some have rather site specific information in them, which should obviously be ignored.
Editors
I think that you are better off using the editor that is part of the
matlab package to carry out your assignments. However, you may also need to
do some simple text editing outside of matlab. For that, there are a
number of options.
Editors are an area where user preference is the key to success.
One finds entire cults of editor enthusiasts willing to fight to the death.
I would advise using emacs, but there are other options as well,
There are several editors which may be used with our system:
- emacs --- an editor that real programmers really like. A bit complicated, but the X Windows version is fairly easy to get started with. There are many tutorials on the web, but the one that comes with it is as good as any. Go to help menu and select tutorial.
- gedit --- an editor that comes with our window system.
Looks easy enough.
vi --- the standard unix editor. Good for terminals, but
doesn't have an X Windows version to make life easy, so not for the faint hearted.
- nedit --- I don't know much about this one, but it looks straightforward to use. Free software from Fermilab.
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