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Programming help sessions - guides to linux, latex, python, shell scripting, numerical calculations

Programming Help Sessions

Here are some guides (and other useful things) for programming and Linux, targeted at physics majors. Let us know if you want to contribute to them. If it is your first time programming, take a look at README.md in the Week 1 directory.

If you're following along with Programming Help Sessions @ UCSB, take a look at our curriculum for:

• Week 1 -- interact with the command line, type in vim, and read text files
• Week 2 -- make a simple python file in vim and execute it in the shell, learn more advanced command line tools, and parse a computational chemistry supercomputer program
• Week 3 -- learn how to write and use bash scripts, customize your shell environment with a .bashrc, learn how to compile simple LaTeX files in the command line
• Week 4 -- streamline your editing of LaTeX files with a .vimrc, use markdown to seamlessly create attractive documents and websites, and add helpful functions to your .bashrc
• Week 5 -- log into a remote server with ssh, create your own github repository, and contribute to these Programming Help Sessions with git

Older curriculum:

• Spring 2018

We have guides for:

• Linux shells (terminal)
• Python programming language
• Vim text editor
• Linux program configurations (dotfiles)

We are always looking to improve! Look at our TODO page and let us know if you have additional ideas or would like to contribute to our documentation.