You may need to install new software to:

• Create presentations
• Write journal papers
• Add equations to your presentations
• Edit a file in the terminal
• Run scripts
• etc ...

Vanderbilt Download Center

Vanderbilt Download Center

• Microsoft Office
• Matlab
• Mathematica
• Skype for Business
• Windows 10
• and a lot more!

And most of it is free!

Terminal Environment

iTerm

What is iTerm?
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.10 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

iTerm

• Split panes
• Hotkey window
• Autocomplete
• Mouse reporting
• Tagged profiles

• Multi-lingual
• Shell Integration
• Automatic profile
  switching
• Inline images
• a lot more!

iTerm

More on this later!

Xcode

Xcode

App Store for the full install! (Big and slow!)

You can also just install the command-line tools:

• Try typing "gcc" in the terminal
• You should be prompted to install
  the command-line tools

If not, type the following in the terminal:

                        xcode-select --install
                        

XQuartz

• Used for displaying graphics from the terminal!
• Also used by remote computers to display graphics

Aquamacs

Emacs for Mac OSX

• An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, R, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more

Aquamacs

LaTeX

Excellente for:

• document preparation
• For medium-to-large technical or scientific documents
• Any kind of publishing

LaTeX

You will need to first download MacTex: (~3.2 G!)

Just follow the instructions to install it!

Juno’s Pulse VPN

You might need to access one of the remote servers from "home"

You will to connect through a VPN

Juno’s Pulse VPN

VPN = Virtual Private Network

Juno’s Pulse VPN

Download at

https://it.vanderbilt.edu/security/secure-communications/remote-access/index.php

Instructions

https://it.vanderbilt.edu/security/secure-communications/remote-access/junos-pulse-osx.php

Homebrew

The missing packager manager!

Homebrew

https://brew.sh/

Homebrew

Paste the following at a Terminal prompt to install

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
                        

Homebrew

To search for a package:

                        brew install <packagename>
                        

Homebrew

Get info about a package:

                        brew info <packagename>
                        

Homebrew

Install a package:

                        brew install <packagename>
                        

Homebrew

Install the following packages

                        brew install rsync
                        brew install htop
                        

Taking notes

There are several different programs out there to do this.

I like 2 in particular!

Evernote

You can takes notes for

• Ideas for a journal paper
• Research meeting
• Research journal!
• etc ...

Evernote

Microsoft OneNote

Same idea as Evernote!

Microsoft OneNote

I personally haven't used this one quite much...

There are probably many other ones out there ...

But these are my personal preference

(For more about OneNote, ask Mehnaaz about it )

Reading and managing papers

Reading and managing papers

To keep up with our field,
we have to read papers every single day!

And we need a way to organize it too!

Reading papers

There are many websites out there to do just this:

• VoxCharta
• ADS
• Astrobites
• amont others ...

Reading papers

Reading papers

My advice is to check it every day!

Organizing papers

After reading them, you need to organize them

Software like

• Mendeley
• Papers
• Simple Finder

are great at doing this!

Organizing papers

I personally prefer Mendeley since it's free!

With Mendeley, you can

• Organize papers in folders
• Sync a watched folder
• Create bibliography for project
• Update library onlie

Mendeley

Let's setup your Mendeley

First

• Download Mendeley:
• Create the following folders in "Documents"
• BibTex_Files
• Mendeley_Desktop
• Mendeley_Docs_Temporary
• Go to "Mendeley Desktop" >> "Preferences"
• Go to "File Organizer"

Now go to "Watched Folders" and choose the folder "Mendeley_Docs_Temporary"

This is the folder to which you save your files temporarily!

And finally ....

Go to "BibTex" tab

Now with Mendeley ...

• Files are now in be in sync
• They are available when you save them in "Mendeley_Docs_Temporary"
• You can create a bibliography for a project
• Are finally organized!

Programming editors

Programming editors

Every day we code.

And we need to feel comfortable coding

We need to make the RIGHT choice!!

Programming editors

My personal choice is

Sublime Text

Sublime Text

Other editors

• Atom - https://atom.io/
• Emacs - https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
• Anaconda Spyder - https://pythonhosted.org/spyder/installation.html

More on this later ...