University of Alaska Fairbanks
Geophysical Institute

Beyond the Mouse - The geoscientist's computational chest.

Useful Links

• GOOGLE -- Yes, I mean it.

Software:

• Cygwin -- Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.
• GMT: Generic Mapping Tools -- A great collection of Unix programs for mapping data
• M_Map -- A mapping package for Matlab.

Reading/Manuals:

• 'Free and gentle introduction to Matlab by Allen Downey.' (Ed Bueler)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_editor -- Why is anything but plain text a bad idea for programming??
• Matlab Basics (modified) (pdf) -- Celso's annotated handout from last semester
• http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix -- One of the tutorials on basic Unix (contains many accessible examples)
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com -- THE Subversion reference
• http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual -- make manual
• Matlab Debugger explained -- A detailed description on how to debug in Matlab
• Debugging Handout (Stanford) -- describes the ``11 Truths of Debugging'' and some more philosophy

HTML/CSS stuff:

• W3C Validator (use it!)
• Tutorials on XHTML, CSS
• XHTML Tag list