Cornell University

Cornell University

Physics Educational Computing Facility (PECF)

Gnu meets Tux...







Library

The following constitutes our brand-new reference library which is located by the door of B3. We hope this will greatly aid in your use of the PECF. Additionally, please contact us if you have any additional recommendations for the reference library that you think have large appeal.

C Pocket Reference, by Peter Prinz and Ulla Kirch-Prinz (O'Reilly, November 2002)
C++: The Core Language, by Gregory Satir and Doug Brown (O'Reilly, November 1995)
C++ and Object Oriented Numeric Computing for Scientists and Engineers, by Daoqi Yang (Springer Verlag, September 2000)
CVS Pocket Reference, by Gregor N. Purdy (O'Reilly, August 2000)
Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs, 2nd Edition, by Scott Meyers (Addison-Wesley, September 1997)
Effective STL, by Scott Meyers (Addison-Wesley, June 2001)
Essential System Administration Pocket Reference, by AEleen Frisch (O'Reilly, November 2002)
Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets, by Peter Van Der Linden (Prentice Hall, June 1994)
First Steps in Latex: A Short Course, by George Gratzen (Springer-Verlag, August 1999)
Gnu Emacs Pocket Reference, by Debra Cameron (O'Reilly, November 1998)
Gnu Octave Manual, by John W. Eaton (Network Theory, March 2002)
Gnu Scientific Library Reference Manual, by Mark Galassi, Brian Gough, and Gerard Jungman (Network Theory, December 2001)
Grokking the GIMP, by Carey Bunks (New Riders, February 2000)
A Guide to Latex: Document Preparation for Beginners and Advanced Users, 3rd Edition, by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly (Addison-Wesley, January 1999)
An Introduction to R, by William N. Venables and David M. Smith (Network Theory, May 2002)
Introductory Statistics with R, by Peter Dalgaard (Springer Verlag, August 2002)
The LaTeX Companions Boxed Set: A Complete Guide and Reference for Preparing, Illustrating, and Publishing Technical Documents, by Michel Goossens, Leslie Lamport, Frank Mittelbach, Sebastian Rahtz, and Alexander Samarin (Addison-Wesley, December 2001)
Learning GNU Emacs, 2nd Edition, by Debra Cameron, Bill Rosenblatt, and Eric Raymond (O'Reilly, October 1996)
Learning Latex, by D. F. Griffiths and D. J. Higham (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, June 1997)
Learning Python, by Mark Lutz and David Ascher (O'Reilly, April 1999)
Learning the Bash Shell, 2nd Edition, by Cameron Newham and Bill Rosenblatt (O'Reilly, January 1998)
Linux Administration Handbook, by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Trent Hein (Prentice Hall, March 2002)
Linux Desk Reference, 2nd Edition, by Scott Hawkins (Prentice Hall, August 2001)
The Maxima Book and DOE-Maxima Reference Manual, by Paulo Ney de Souza, Richard J. Fateman, Joel Moses, and Cliff Yapp and Michael Clarkson (Self-Published, January 2002 and August 2002)
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e, by Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, and Elisabeth Schlegl (Self-Published, January 1999)
Numerical Methods That Work, by Forman S. Acton (Mathematical Association of America, December 1990)
Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition, by Johan Vromans (O'Reilly, July 2002)
Pointers on C, by Kenneth A. Reek (Addison-Wesley, August 1997)
The Practice of System and Network Administration, by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Christine Hogan (Addison-Wesley, August 2001)
Programming Perl, 3rd Edition, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant (O'Reilly, July 2000)
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt (Addison-Wesley, October 2000)
Python Cookbook, by Alex Martelli and David Ascher (O'Reilly, July 2002)
Python Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition, by Mark Lutz (O'Reilly, November 2001)
Ruby in a Nutshell, by Yukihiro Matsumoto (O'Reilly, November 2001)
Sed and Awk Pocket Reference, by Arnold Robbins (O'Reilly, June 2002)
Sed and Awk, 2nd Edition, by Dale Dougherty and Arnold Robbins (O'Reilly, March 1997)
Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition, by Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, and Mike Loukides (O'Reilly, October 2002)
Vi iMproved (VIM), by Steve Oualline (New Riders, April 2001)
VI Editor Pocket Reference, by Arnold Robbins (O'Reilly, February 1999)