Emacs Basics

It’s been a while since I wrote my Vim Introduction and Tutorial (exactly one year). A lot happened between now and then, I chose to get a better feeling about Emacs for example.

The reasons aren’t easily explained; The most prominent reason is the awesome AucTex-mode since I’m working heavily with LaTeX lately.

Anyways, learning Vim and Emacs is better than learning only one of them :-).

Continue to full post...

Free and Open Source Math Programs

In this post I’ll go through some of the most prominent math programs available with source code.

This is by no means “original” work, I just collected the headlines and links to various mathematical software projects out there. This started with an offer of my University (Mathematica for 13 Euro), but I don’t want to invest time in a tool I won’t have (free, or almost free) access to for the rest of my life.

Continue to full post...