MESA was formed in 2010 to expand the opportunities available to MacDiarmid Institute PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. It works to improve networking among them and establish a sense of community.
LabVIEW is a visual programming language commonly used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation in science and engineering.
There is an introductory tuto...
MATLAB
MATLAB is a powerful numerical computing language commonly used in a wide array of scientific fields. Although it’s not open source, most institutions have a licence.
Some of the best tutorials available online are direct fr...
This excellent little programme replaces the standard ‘Notepad’ on any Windows operating system with an upgraded version that understands the syntax of huge range of programming languages. It still functions well as a si...
Our current recommended Linux operating system is Ubuntu for new Linux users, although there are others out there which more advanced users may prefer.
Endnote is Thompson Reuter’s answer to referencing and has become a staple for many scientists. There are alternatives out there, but Endnote does its job reasonably well. There is a multitude of Endnote resources available o...
R is a one-of-a-kind statistical programming language. It was developed in New Zealand at the University of Auckland and has since been adopted by many academics and professionals around the world. It is w...
Labelling and saving your first Python plot
The last tutorial covered how to load a dataset into your python session and then plot it using the matplotlib.pyplot (pylab) plotting package. Well done if you have gotten this far! Th...