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"Course notes This course is part of the Scientific Computing series, and as such many of the examples chosen are of most relevance to scientific computing. The course notes (in various forms) are available here. The files used during the course are available here. This course is aimed at those who already know how to program in another high level programming language (such as C/C++, Fortran, Java, Perl or Visual Basic) and who now wish to learn Python. (Those with little or no prior programming experience should try the "Python: Introduction for Absolute Beginners" course instead.) The aim of this course is to provide sufficient familiarity with Python that attendees can attend any of our more advanced Python courses and easily follow any of the widely available Python tutorials on the more complex aspects of the language."

Cart: Computer software for making cartograms This page contains computer software and documentation for creating density-equalizing maps or "cartograms" using the technique described in the paper Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps, Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 7499-7504 (2004).

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"Here is the list of MAC Print Screen Tricks/ Shortcuts that would allow you to use Print Screen in MAC. Overview You just broke the highest score in your favorite game and want to keep a screenshot of it to share it with your friends. You have done it in a PC, but you using a MAC now. How do you do it? Unlike Windows PC, MAC doesn't have a dedicated Print Screen key on its keyboard which makes it hard for new MAC users to perform screen capture. This article comprehensively details every possible free method to use the Print Screen Feature in MAC. These methods include using keyboard shortcuts and bundled Apple utilities."

The following training materials will assist Students, Instructors and Administrators in getting started with your Turnitin account.

So here are 25 Web 2.0 applications (mostly free) that should help you on your quest as a student or professor in being productive.

Making Data More Usable With ScraperWiki September 20, 2011, 3:00 pm By Jason B. Jones The great strength of the internet is also its weakness: There is So! Much! Information! out there-so much, in fact, that it can become hard to access. And not everyone who publishes the same kind of information, or information about the same topic, publishes it in the same way, or to common repositories.

"In the opening chapter of his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman pondered the nature of science, the laws of physics, and the best way to teach it all. He emphasized that much of the vast accumulation of scientific knowledge could be condensed into some essential principles that allowed all sorts of sophisticated deductions."