Approximate outline for Computers in Earth and Space Exploration

Introduction

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

Matlab
    Basics
            Data analysis and statistics, etc.
            A few simple geological problems
    Programming
        Scaling, rotations, and translation
    Data analysis
    Euler method and simple numerical methods
    Visualization
    Matrices
    GUIs

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

UNIX/LINUX
    Generic Mapping Tools
    Scripting
    Heavy duty data analysis