Unix Visual Quickstart Guide, Fourth Eddition, D.S. Ray and E.J. Ray

The Univerity is licensed to access many Unix books online.

We will also reference:Classic Shell Scripting, A. Robbins and N.H.F. Beebe.

The "AWK book"
Awk Article 1
Awk Article 2
Awk Article 3

Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)

Seismic Analysis Code (SAC)

Mathworks
Getting started with Matlab

Students must attend all lectures and labs. Class absences must be discussed PRIOR to the missed class.

Homework assignments must be handed in on time; 10% will be taken off for each day late.

The class will include completing a computer based research project that uses the tools discussed in class. The project can be related to your primary research interest or topic. The project must be approved before starting work. Each student will give a 20 minute presentation the last day of class.

70% homework, 10% class participation, 20% final project.

Each student will design, implement and present a small-scale data analysis project. The project should use programs and/or techniques discussed in the class. Geophysics data is preferred and a project releated to the student's own research is encouraged. Use of SAC and/or MATLAB and or GMT as part of the project is mandatory. The topic should be discussed with me, decided on and approved no later than Nov 3rd. Each student will give a 20 minute PowerPoint presentation the last day of class. The project should be thoroughtly documented and all scripts/programs/macros turned in as part of the project. There will be no final exam.

Sep      1    NO CLASS - to be made up
Sep      3    NO CLASS - to be made up
Sep      8    Class 1 - intro
Sep      8    Class 1 - basics-1
Sep    10    Class 2 - basics-2
Sep    15    Class 3 - basics-3
Sep    17    Class 4, 5 -  basics-4, make up 1 - class (2 pm) basics-5
Sep    22    Class 6 - shell scripting 101
Sep    24    NO CLASS - to be made up
Sep    29    Class 7 - shell scripting 201+intro awk, make up 2 - lab (2 pm).
Oct      1    Class 8 - awk
Oct      6    Class 9 - SAC (1)
Oct      8    Class 10 - SAC (2)
Oct    13    Class 11 - GMT (1), make up 3 - lab (2:30 pm).
Oct    15    Class 12 - GMT (2)
Oct    20    Fall Break - NO CLASS
Oct    22    Class 13 - GMT (3)
Oct    27    Class 14 - computer representation of numbers
Oct    29    NO CLASS - to be made up - attend USGS meeting on New Madrid
Nov     3    Class 15 - MATLAB - 1
Nov     5    Class 16 - MATLAB - 2, newton's method and convergence speed example
Nov   10    Class 17 - MATLAB - 3
Nov   12    Class 18 - MATLAB - 4, Typinski-EarthGrav
Nov   17    Class 19 - MATLAB and GMT output to Adobe Illustrator, Newtons Method convergence for complex functions
Nov   19    Class 20 - MATLAB - 5
Nov   24    Class 21 - MATLAB - 6, PCA example
Nov   26    Thanksgiving - NO CLASS
Dec      1    Class 22 - MATLAB 7, GUIs
Dec      3    Class 23 - FORTRAN and C
Dec      8    Present projects.

(I sometimes make changes to the notes presented in class - based on questions/comments during the class or because I found something interesting. The files at the links above are therefore not completely static during the semester.)