NOTE: all tutorials & documentation are HTML format unless otherwise noted.

Visualization and Scientific Programming References:

• IDL Documentation: Interactive Data Language - Visualization and scientific programming
• Data Explorer (IBM) Documentation: A GUI based visualization tool (now open source!)
  • downloadable documentation is available here
• GMT 3.1 Tutorial/Documentation: A freeware map making utility
• Matlab Tutorial: A quick start guide to matlab
• Introduction to Programming: tips and tricks for beginning programmers; oriented to the philosophy of choosing and building algorithms rather than the syntax of any particular language.
• Unix for Science: tips and tricks for doing science in the UNIX environment; assumes working knowledge of UNIX and a command shell.

Programming Languages:

• PGHPF: Portland Group, Inc.'s High Performance Fortran compiler documentation
• Neil's C++ Tutorial: Tangible C++ for the commoner
• Python Tutorial: A High level, object oriented programming language (very cool!)
  • downloadable Postscript version (1 MB)
• Perl Tutorial: A powerful and simple scripting language for string manipulation
• flTk Tutorial: A tool for making c++ GUIs
  • downloadable pdf and post script versions (~900 kb)
• Tkinter Tutorial: A language for making platform independent GUIs in Python
  • downloadable post script version (.tar.gz format)
• Java Tutorial: Sun microsystems practical guide for programmers

Operating Systems:

• UNIX Tutorial: A quickstart guide to learning UNIX

Word Processing & Desktop publishing

• LaTex Tuturial: Text processing using LaTex (Univ. of Cambridge)