Good resources to get started
- Introduction to Linux
- Cornell Virtual Workshop (good for novice)
- Unix and PERL for biologists (good for novice)
- Unix Quick guide (good for novice)
- Despite its (scary) name, this is an excellent no-nonsense tutorial! http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/
- GNU Core utils for working with files
- LinuxCommand website is good place to get started on some command-line-fu.
- Programming:
- Really good thoughts on programming language environments, learning, and thinking
- Text editing in Linux:
- Pico: For the beginner. Pretty simple and gets the job done
- VI: your best, complicated friend for almost quickly editing text files:
- The command 'vimtutor' that can be found on popular Linux Distros is a quick way to get acquainted with vi(m).
- http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html
- Eclipse: When you want a full blown IDE
- Programming for kids: (really neat way to start)
- Linux Foo: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/what-is-foo-468303/
- tmux: (awesome virtual console manager)
- Let's you keep a "screen" active while you are logged out of the system
- http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
- screen: (level 1 virtual console manager)
- tmux: (awesome virtual console manager)
- Code Versioning:
- GIT concepts simplified (from the ACM club's email): It covers a lot of git concepts and explains them all graphically.
- Virtual and Cloud Computing:
- Virtual Box: Virtual machines on your machine.
- Amazon: EC2 (requires $$$)