On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Globe Trotter wrote: > > I am a statistics instructor who is trying to wean the students out of the > dreadful ways of Windoze. Does anyone know of a tutorial covering just the > basic set of tools to get started? Omline would be great, of course! If you are a statistics instructor you should be able to focus on statistics and math. All the students need is login, simple editor (nano, vim), simple file commands, math tools and logout. I have seen university classes where instructions for notepad file uploads were provided. To get started with math tools, look into ... octave - A high-level interactive language for numerical computations. And 'calc' a notch above and beyond bc/dc. http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/index.html And 'pscp'. http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ And 'bc'/'dc'. These are standsard unix/Linux tools bc and dc are an arbitrary precision calculator pair one is rpn the other not. These are good tools to explore the dynamics of numbers and errors that are so common in some statistical numeric computation. And gnumeric a GNOME spreadsheet application. Lots of built in statistics functions.... And, more but this is a good start. Do not ignore the obvious, look and see how webalizer works. -- T o m M i t c h e l l spam unwanted email. SPAM, good eats, and a trademark of Hormel Foods.
