Programming and programming languages

Learning C++

• Kevin Cowtan's primer at http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/lectures/kdc05cplusplus.pdf
• FAQ : http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/

Learning Fortran

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran (History), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran_language_features , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran_95_language_features (by Michael Metcalf)
• http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/unfp.html
• http://math.scu.edu/~dsmolars/ma169/notesfortran.html
• List of Fortran tutorials
• http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Tutorials

Learning Python

An interpreted alternative to C++ and Fortran, which makes it easier to write quick programs.

• http://docs.python.org/tut/
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Programmer's_Tutorial_for_Python/Contents
• "Learning Python" book, by Mark Lutz

R

Originally a statistics package, is very powerful for data analysis and visualization.

• Bio3D - an R package containing utilities for the analysis of protein structure and sequence data