Computing Skills
Computing skills are essential for development in physics. Good use of computers can significantly improve quality of your undergraduate work, if in doubt ask a third or forth year student (third and forth years, we hope that you have realised this).
The computing skills you have developed before coming to university are important but it is important to continue development of these skills. They enhance your employability, make report writing much easier, improve your data analysis skills and also aid understanding of basic physics concepts.
Use of computers is your choice, there is no perfect way to use them. There are packages and programs well suited to some tasks and less well suited to others These pages consist of short guides to develop your skills, they can be referred to when you forget some syntax or how to use a particular package or tools. The pages on each topic include
- Introduction to the package
- Basic instructions on using the package
- Examples for you to try out
- Instructions on how to obtain and install for personal computer
- Links to external resources which also help in understanding some software
Follow the links on the right hand side to packages and the instructions are meant to be followed independently in the teaching laboratory.