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

    • http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/

  • Text editing in Linux:

    • Pico: For the beginner.  Pretty simple and gets the job done

      • http://www.cs.colostate.edu/helpdocs/pico.html

    • 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

      • https://eclipse.org/

  • Programming for kids: (really neat way to start)

    • http://scratch.mit.edu/

• 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)

    • http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

• Code Versioning:

  • GIT concepts simplified (from the ACM club's email): It covers a lot of git concepts and explains them all graphically.

    • http://gitolite.com/gcs/index.html

• Virtual and Cloud Computing:

  • Virtual Box: Virtual machines on your machine. 

    • Documentation

  • Amazon: EC2 (requires $$$)

    • http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

• R: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~msby/StatThink/IntroStat.pdf