Computing Tools, Techniques and Manuals

HTML

Intro to HTML (and CSS)
A 10 minute guide to HTML for beginners
bare bones guide (good!!)
HTML 4.01
HTML Character Code for those tricky symbols and non-English charatcers
RGB Colour chart (for backgrounds - use the 'RGB Hex' column in your HTML)

Latex

Latex2e help
Maths and graphics
Special characters

Latex2Html

Latex2html

Unix

Unix man pages
Unix is a four letter word
Unix Guru Universe - for sys admin types and those that wanna know more
Unix Resources

GNU

GNU Project

Scripting Languages - CGI, Perl and HTML Forms

CGI Resources
CGI tutorial
The Perl Institute
Perl Language Homepage
Perl Tutorials
Python - "a totally awesome, bitchin' interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language"

Programming Languages

Fortran Programming User Notes
Standand Fortran77 Manual
Fortran tutorials
Fortran 90 tutorial
C Programming Note
C by example
C++

Editors

Mastering Vi, and the Vi lovers homepage!
GNU Emacs and Xemacs

Graphics

Gnuplot
• Gnuplot homepage
• Intro to Gnuplot from CNSCL, Northern Iowa
• basic gnuplot
PGPLOT
• PGPLOT manual
• PGPLOT graphics library
• subroutine descriptions (local copy)
• pgperl
NetPBM
• netpbm - tools for converting a variety of image formats to and from a set of portable formats
  PBM = `portable bitmap' (black&white)
  PGM = `portable gray map' (greyscale, usually 8bit)
  PPM = `portable pix map' (color, usually 24bit)
  
IDL

Animation

GIFmerge
WhirlGIF
xamin
MPEGs from PS files

Maths Packages

Mapel Index
Mathematica Tutorial
Numerical Recipes

Last Updated: September 2009

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