MJ Rutter's Computing Page

This page contains computing-related stuff produced by me. Those searching for evidence that I have a life outside of computing need to search elsewhere. I may enjoy a schizophrenic existance as mjr and mjr19, but my email address is always the latter. The correct University (not Departmental) domain is not hard to guess.

Programs

Those programs which I have written and distribute fairly freely, which include bmp2eps, psimages, eps2gif and check2xsf, are all found on MJR's Software Page.

Part II Computational Physics

A one-off attempt to teach Fortran 90 to over a hundred undergraduates.

The following handouts may be freely used for individual learning (or entertainment). I am unaware that anyone claims copyright on the images, or that anyone other than myself can claim copyright on the text.

An introduction to (scientific) computing
An introduction to PWF UNIX (as it was in 2001/2)
Fortran 95 F95 and NAG's F77 library, including exercises.
UNIX utilities mostly gnuplot and gv

An example of using LaTeX to write a report was given, for which one needs this file and this one. (You will need to persuade your WWW browser to download these files, rather than viewing them.)

Graduate lectures

These are generally more fun, and mostly found on the relevant bit of TCM's computing pages.

The better ones are here:

Improving your Image, an overview of image formats (Lent 2006) (PostScript only)
Encapsulated PostScript (Lent 2005)
An Introduction to Computational Physics, more accurately, how computers work, in much more detail than a Physicist needs. (Michaelmas 2004)
UNIX: an Operating Environment (Lent 2004)
Computer Architecture (Lent 2003)

However, beware typos and the lack of accompanying voice-over!

Bloch's Theorem

Some notes on Bloch's Theorem.

C and Fortran

My infamous C vs Fortran document. Yes, I should probably update it to cover C99, F2003, etc.

Castep Visualisation from UNIX

Some notes exist on Castep visualisation from UNIX. The corresponding program, check2xsf, is now freely distributed under the GPL and is available from the same page.

An Introduction to UNIX

Everyone has to write one once. So this is mine.

The Weather

Obligatory for the home page of any Englishman, the weather past and present and predictions for the future, from the Met Office and BBC.

Comments and corrections to mjr19 at the obvious University (not Departmental) domain.