Links

GNU is not Unix.

"The Universal Operating System"

My first introduction to Linux was the 3rd chapter of "Linux Installation and Getting Started", which is available there in PDF. They have an HTML version, but some of the nifty formated text is put in as images which cut off some of the text.

the documentation archives at www.faqs.org

They have stuff about all kinds of things, but seem to have a lot about computers and linuxy stuff.

Data Formats

Candis

C analysis and display.

NetCDF

network Common Data Format by Unidata. Some of the software/languages we use work well with netCDF, and it's easy to convert back and forth between Candis and netCDF format.

NCSA HDF Homepage

Hierarchical Data Format by NCSA. Some of the data we've run into is in HDF format.

Programming and Scripting

Python

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, that combines power with clear syntax. An expansive standard library is distributed with the language.

Bourne Shell

An Introduction to the Unix Shell, Steve Bourne's original tutorial.

Gri

Gri is a command-driven language for scientific graphics programming. One data format it supports is netCDF.

make

Make is a tool which controls the generation of files. Make gets its knowledge of how to build your target file from a file called the makefile, which lists each of the target files and how to compute it from other files. There are several versions of make. We have GNU make.

GNU make
The GNU make manual in several different formats

Rlab

"Our" lab by Ian Searle. Rlab is a high-level programming language whose focus is matrix math. It is no longer under active development. It is Matlab like, but is not intended to be a Matlab clone.

Octave

GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations, and is mostly compatible with Matlab.

Web Authoring

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

That big group in the sky that sets "official" standards for such things as HTML, XHTML, CSS, and the like. There's a lot of information here, which is good, but I can get rather overwhelmed by the sheer bulk of it. Also, much of it is very techincal, so it can be hard to follow at times.

Web Design Group (WDG)

Westciv's House of Style

Index DOT at Blooberry

Dan's Web Tips

Web authoring and surfing by Jukka Korpela

Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design

CSS-discuss Wiki

A List Apart

CSS Pointers Group

A lot of information about style sheets

SelectORacle

"English and Spanish translations of CSS3 selectors" allows you to enter some CSS into their form and it returns an explanation of what elements are being selected. Kind'a fun.

NCSA's A Beginner's Guide to HTML

The first I really learned about HTML was from an earlier version of this document. It doesn't cover everything, but I think it can be a good place to start.

Optimizing Web Graphics: Which Color Palette?

An article about different color palettes. It has pictures of that give the RGB color codes. This is the only page I've run across that talks about a different color palette for Unix and gives a key to its RGB codes too.

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