Vanderbilt Download Center

https://it.vanderbilt.edu/software-store/

Vanderbilt Download Center

https://it.vanderbilt.edu/software-store/

• 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.

I personally haven't used this one quite as much so it really comes down to whatever works for you

iTerm

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

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

https://www.iterm2.com/features.html

iTerm

More on terminal stuff later!

Xcode

https://developer.apple.com/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

https://www.xquartz.org/

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

Vim

https://www.vim.org/

• A highly configurable text editor that comes with the MacOS

Aquamacs

Emacs for Mac OSX

http://aquamacs.org/

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

Atom

 

Text editor for Mac and Windows

https://atom.io/

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

LaTeX

Excellent 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!)

https://www.tug.org/mactex/

Just follow the steps to install it and test your installation using these instructions!

 

You can also use https://www.overleaf.com/

More on this later

Pulse Secure VPN

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

You will need to connect through a VPN

This may already be installed on your Mac by Vanderbilt IT. So, check before you download.

Pulse Secure VPN

VPN = Virtual Private Network

Pulse Secure VPN

Download at

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

Instructions for MacOS

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

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
                        brew install tree
                        brew install gcc
                        brew install git
                        

htop

This is a process viewer and manager.

Taking notes

There are several different programs out there to do this.

I know of 2 in particular!

Microsoft OneNote

Same idea as Evernote!

Microsoft OneNote

https://products.office.com/en-us/onenote/digital-note-taking-app

Evernote

You can takes notes for

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

Evernote

https://evernote.com/

Notion

https://www.notion.so/

There are probably many other ones out there ...

But these are some popular ones

Reading and managing papers

Reading and managing papers

To keep up with our field,
we have to read papers often!

And we need a way to organize it too!

Reading papers

There are many websites out there to do just this:

• VoxCharta
• ADS
• Astrobites
• Benty-fields
• amongst others ...

Reading papers

Another cool resource

Organizing papers

After reading them, you need to organize them

Softwares like

• Mendeley
• Papers
• Simple Finder

are great at doing this!

Organizing papers

• Mendeley
• EndNote
• Zotero

 

 

More info on all three.

 

 

 

Tip 1: If using Mendeley sign up with your Vanderbilt email you get 100 GB of space! 

Tip 2 : The Vanderbilt library hosts workshops to learn more how to use the different citation managers 

With Mendeley, you can

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

Programming editors

Programming editors

We code every day.

So, you need to feel comfortable doing it.

You need to make the right choice for you!

VS Code

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Programming Editors 

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

More on this later ...