Approximate outline for Computers in Geology

Introduction

HTML
    Assignments will be turned in as web pages, etc.

Excel
    Data analysis and statistics, etc.
    A few simple geological problems
    RMS and solver
    Scaling, rotations, and translation
    Euler method and simple numerical methods
    
Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop

GIS
    Geoinformatics
    ArcGIS
    Vectors and digitizing
    Rasters
       DEMs
       Remote sensing
       Boolean operations
    Visualization
    Google Earth

Field computing

Visualization

Matlab
    Basics
    Programming
    Data analysis
    Euler again
    Visualization
    Matrices
    GUIs