Tutorials about Linux & Applications
Linux tutorial
Ubuntu tutorial
My favorite distribution is Ubuntu, or actually even better Kubuntu. Here is a good starter video.
Emacs tutorial
Emacs is a great ASCII editor, which can be used for almost everything on your computer.
Xmgrace tutorial
Xmgrace is a nice and simple tool for plotting data. Here is a great tutorial by Vyshnavi Vennelakanti:
- Tutorial 01: How to make a line plot using Xmgrace?
- Tutorial 02: How to present your plot well using Xmgrace?
- Tutorial 03: How to make multiple plots using Xmgrace?
- Tutorial 04.1: Part 01 - How to make a bar plot using Xmgrace?
- Tutorial 04.2: Part 02 - How to tune the properties of each bar in a bar graph independently?
- Tutorial 05: How to make a histogram/normalized histogram using Xmgrace?
- Tutorial 06: How to make overlapping graphs using Xmgrace?
Another tutorial video on Xmgrace is
But there is also good text-based user guide for looking up commands:
LaTeX tutorial
LaTeX is a great program for writing larger documents like papers and especially theses. Here is a great text that gets you stated with Latex:
And here is a great Latex Tutorial by Aaron Wong. It was originally made for maths students (so there are some part explained that you may not need), but it is actually great for every one who needs to write equations.
Just to be clear, you do not need to know all of this to create nice latex documents. The first five videos give you a great start!!!
- 01 - Introduction
- 02 - Basic Text Manipulation
- 03 - Basic Math Manipulation
- 04 - Tables and Arrays
- 05 - Calculus Notation
- 06 - Miscellaneous Notation
- 07 - Basic Customization
- 08 - LaTeX Environments
- 09 - Random Other Things
- 10 - TikZ (Part 1)
- 11 - TikZ (Part 2)
- 12 - TikZ (Part 3)
- 13 - Beamer
Here is transcript of the videos
XFig tutorial
XFig is a nice program for drawing simple schemes etc