Syllabus
1. Understanding hardware: personal computers, Unix workstations, peripherials (printers, scanners, network components).
2. Understanding operating systems: Unix and MS Windows - basic concepts, commands and utilities.
3. Local area networks: sharing disks and printers, communication among systems and users.
4. Computational software: compilers of Fortran for Linux and MS Windows, numerical libraries (Numerical Recipes, Intel MKL, IMSL), systems Matlab and Octave, Python language with Numpy and Scipy packages.
5. Graphical and visualization software: data visualization in 2, 3 and 4 dimensions (Gnuplot, GMT, ParaView).
6. Preparation of typographically valuable texts: LaTeX & comp. Briefly on HTML.
Annotation
Using computing facilities for students of geophysics. Orientation in hardware, operating systems of Microsoft, Unix systems and computer networks.
Introduction to the Fortran and Python languages and numerical libraries. Software for visualization and typesetting.