Useful Online Guides + Tutorials

• Unix Operating System

  • Steve McMillan's Unix Command Summary

  • M. Stonebank's Unix Tutorial for Beginners

  • Marc Kummel's Unix Basics

• Command Shells

  • O'Reilly's Built-in csh and tcsh Commands

  • William Joy + Mark Seiden's Introduction to the C-Shell (csh) (PDF)

  • LinuxConfig.org's Bash Scripting Tutorial

  • Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

• Emacs Text Editor

  • Phil Sung's GNU Emacs Guide

  • David Cohen + Bob Roger's Emacs Cheat Sheet

• C Programming Language

  • Steve Holmes' C Programming Course

  • Steve McMillan's C Language Tutorial

• Supermongo (SM) Plotting Software

  • Robert Lupton's Official Supermongo User Guide

  • Rebecca Stanek's Joy of Supermongo Guide

• Interactive Data Language (IDL) Plotting/Analysis Software

  • Robert O'Connell's IDL Resources and IDL Tutorial

  • Carl Heiles's IDL Tutorials + Handouts

  • L. Nicastro's IDL Resources

  • Tim Robishaw's IDL Tricks

  • NASA-Goddard IDL Astronomy Users Library

• Karma Visualization Software

  • Richard Gooch's Karma User Manual

  • Ashley Pond's X Color Specifications (for annotations)