Resources, references, and Links

Study

Radiative Processes in Astrophysics by George B. Rybicki, Alan P. Lightman

Textbook on radiative processes in astrophysics

Galactic Dynamics by James Binney, Scott Tremaine

Textbook on galactic dynamics

Research

astrobites

An astro-ph reader's digest

IT

git-scm reference

Open-source git documentation and reference site

FLASH

Open-source and free multiphysics magnetohydrodynamic code

PLUTO

A modular code for computational astrophysics

yt project

Simulation data anlysis and visualization in python

VisIt

parallel, interactive, visualization software

Chombo

Adaptive Mesh Refinement library

cplusplus

The C++ and C reference

C++ FAQ

comp.lang.c++ C++ FAQs

Google C++ style guide

Google's C++ style guide (not an absolute reference)

C FAQ

comp.lang.c C FAQs

Dive into Python 3

One of the best introductions to python

Effbot pyfaq

One of the best collections of python facts and tips

Sed

The best online sed tutorial

Bitbucket

The best git and mercurial repository host

SourceTree

Git and Mercurial client

SuperDuper!

Backup software for Macs

Crashplan

Cloud based personal backup solution

adwcleaner

An efficient up-to-date malware remover for Windows

PyCharm

The best python IDE

Matplotlib

Python-based plotting library

Seaborn

Informative and aesthetic statistical data visualization

Authorea

Paper writing online collaboration platform

ShareLaTeX

LaTeX online collaboration platform

Jekyll

A static webpage/blog generating framework supporting Markdown and using Liquid templating.

Densuke

A Japanese Doodle