Computer Info
Miscellaneous Computer, OS, and Software Info
Aerospace Engineering
Penn State University
- I recommend Apple, Unix, or Linux computers;
and I would NOT advise using MS Windows computers
- For computer languages I recommend C, C++, or Java, depending
on the application. More generally, you should learn one language from each
of these categories of languages:
- Procedural (c, Fortran, ...)
- Object oriented (C++, Java, ...)
- Scripting (Python, PHP, Perl, ...)
- Web (HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS
Engineering students should also learn Matlab, and
maybe SimuLink too.
- One of the best publishers of computer related books
is O'Reilly Press. Penn State faculty and students
have access to ALL these books on-line.
Just go the
the PSU library , and scroll down to safari.
If this link does not work, just go to the main
PSU library website:
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/, then click on
"Research Tools" then click on "E-Resource List"
- You will need to get used to SSH and SCP.
There is
info on SSH from PSU .
If you use Unix, Apple, or Linux machines,
there should already be SSH and SCP installed.
- For info on setting permissions in Penn State
PASS space, see:
setting PASS space permissions
- You all ought to become familiar with
Linux . Linux is very similar
to Unix. Linux is very easy to use, and is actually easier to
install than MS Windows. You can get
Linux for free here .
You can also install very nice
window environments, such as
Gnome
or KDE .
You can get integrated development environments (IDE)
for developing C++ code also, such as
KDevelop or
Eclipse .
You can also get
Open Office for free,
so you can do the equivalent to what MS Office (and read/write MS Office
files).
Large scale CFD jobs are almost always run on
Linux (or unix) machines.
We use Ubuntu Linux or
SUSE Linux, but
there are other good versions of Linux too:
Redhat ,
Mandrake ,
Debian , ...
Linux is much better than MS Windows. MS Windows is bloated,
unreliable software.
- The new
Mac OS X is also very good,
and is actually based upon unix. It is reliable and very easy to use.
It also has many of the unix tools installed
automatically (e.g. shells, vi, emacs,
java, ssh, scp, ...). Instead of MS Office you can use
the Mac programs: Numbers, Keynote,
and Pages. I use Macs.
- Graphics
- Compilers and Languages:
- Miscellaneous computing links:
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