This entry accompanies a presentation for the module 'Advanced Computational Methods Part II'; it can also be viewed as a stand-alone exercise for those not present at the workshop. The material presented here consists of tutorials and exercises designed to introduce the programming language C++.
These exercises are designed for …
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Julia is a newish programming language designed to provide high-level and high performance technical computing. It has a syntax that should be familiar to users of Matlab and Python. The languge is rapidly evolving and has a signigicantly increasing popultion of contributors. Julia is based around a LLVM (low …
FORTRAN (or FORmula TRANslator) can be considered the first widely used programming language. With the first compiler released in 1957, FORTRAN has been around and still going for almost 60 years with the next release expected in 2015. The purpose for this session is to firstly present the basic principles …
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This entry is to accompany the module 'Advance Computational Methods Part II'. The aim is to firstly walk through how to install Sublime Text 2 (ST2) on your Linux operating system and then demonstrate the mighty power of this text editor and how to tweak it to your personal needs …
read moreThis post provides a step-by-step guide to manually install Pelican on the bare VirtualBox lubuntu image. You probably want to install it on your own machine as well for any serious work. In most cases, this should be easier than for lubuntu. The key is to make sure you have …
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Pelican is a static web site generator implemented in Python. It rgenerates HTML pages and blog posts from Markdown or reStructuredText source files. Pelican is very lightweight, uses the Jinja2 templating engine to generate HTML, and supports themes.
The tools that we will need are