Tutorials about Linux & Applications
Linux tutorial
Ubuntu tutorial
My favorite distribution is Ubuntu. Here is a good starter video.
Emacs tutorial
Xmgrace tutorial
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
Here is a great text that gets you stated with Latex:
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 It was originally made for maths students (so there are some part explained that you may not need), but it is actually great for every one who needs to write equations.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 this all to create nice latex documents. The first five videos give you a great start!!!
Just Enough LaTeX to Survive
Individual Videos:
- 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
Even if I love Latex, I do not recommend to prepare talks in it. I used to do it for years for talks, but I realized that PowerPoint is much nicer to use, offers more options, and creates less problems when you give talks elsewhere. Here is transcript of the videos