50 Open Source Software For Your Windows PC! Clean Your System and Free Disk Space | BleachBit. Use Gedit As An IDE For Any Programming Language « TechMalt. By Devin Cornell, on January 16th, 2011 Although there are always large integrated development environments for the various languages that are available to you, I personally prefer to use a lighter weight, and simpler program to do my editing. The flexibility, extensibility, and stability of Gedit places it at the pinnacle of favorite programs to use of all time. It has a built in terminal, built in python interpreter, a file browser, and supports a bagillion programming language. I’m going to show you how to set it up to use with any compiler program. Install gedit-plugins This package comes with a ton of useful gedit plugins, so just enter this command to install them. sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins Once that is done, simply open gedit, and go edit->preferences and open the tab that says plugins.
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Mathematical analysis Matlab and Mathematica are the de facto industry standards in numerical and symbolic analysis respectively, both proprietary and non-free. Though there are many great alternatives to both of them, listed below. More info... Mathematica - Non-free high-level computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. A list with more alternatives can be found here. Finite element analysis Elmer - Elmer is an open source computational tool for multi-physics problems. Fluid mechanics Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics that studies fluids and the forces on them.
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