My Scientific Cheat Sheet

Here are my favorite tools and approaches to do my daily scientific work.

Table of Contents

• Data Processing
• Coding
  • Programming languages
    • Java
    • Python
    • Fortran
    • C
  • Parallelization
  • Code Optimization
  • Version control
• Optimization
• Collaboration
• Productivity
• Reading

Data Processing

• GDAL: Convert between different geospatial data formats; favorite tool: gdal_translate
• CDO: The Climate Data Operators are my favorite tool to manipulate netCDF files, e.g., doing basic statistics, merging, splitting, remapping, etc..

Coding

• Code Words: A quarterly publication about programming from Hacker School
• Best of VIM Tips

Programming languages

• Free Programming Books

Java

• Java for Everything

Python

• Free Python Books
• Python Scientific Lecture Notes
• Python Best Practice Patterns by Vladimir Keleshev (Notes)
• 30 Python Language Features and Tricks You May Not Know About

Fortran

• Fortran 90 - Best Practice For Fortran programming in general.

C

Parallelization

Code optimization

• Valgrind is not a leak checker

Version control

• Pro Git 2nd ed.
• Git fake submodules
• A Hacker's Guide to Git
• Version control for fun and profit: the tool you didn't know you needed. From personal workflows to open collaboration
• Git tips from the trenches
• Github Cheet Sheet

Optimization

Collaboration

• Google Hangouts
• ShareLatex

Productivity

• pomodoro
• 30/30

Reading

• The Feynman Lectures Online
• Free open-source lecture books