The course aims to help undergraduates (sophomore to senior) and incoming graduate students quickly get familiar with various computing tools and shell languages in the cost-free Linux (the affinity of Unix) system used mostly in geophysics and seismology community. The students can then use these tools or write their own programs for in-class exercises, take-home assignments, term projects, and their own research studies. The topics covered in the course will be introductory and mainly for Geoscience-majored students but the content should be general and useful enough for other students who need to do programming and computing for their study. In addition, the basic concepts and applications of statistical data analysis, regression, discrete fourier transform, and signal filtering and processing will be also introduced to deomonstrate the functionality of these computing tools.

Topics:
1. Introduction to Linux (Unix) system & basic commands
2. Text editing with vi editor
3. Programming with shell scripts using C and bash shell
4. AWK and SED for text processing, data extraction and reporting
5. Introductio to Python and programming
 data types, variables, basic IO and operators
 logical operations, conditional execution, loops, lists
 functions, tuples, dictionaries,
 matrix operations (NumPy) and signal processing (scipy)
 plotting: matplotlib
 Obspy: A python toolbox for seismology
 Reading & writing seismograms
 Displaying and plotting waveforms
 Retrieving data from data center (IRIS, FDSN, …)
 Signal Processing and Filtering
 Seismometer correction/response