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Processing and Eclipse

Title	Description
Kinect + Processing + Eclipse	A simple installation tutorial to get Eclipse all set up to run Shiffman's Kinect demo Daniel Shiffman's demos.
Skeleton Project in Processing and Simple Exercises	This tutorial assumes some basic Java programming skills. Start with the basic: create a new Processing project in Eclipse with simple animation. Processing Tutorial: Creating a trail behind objects A page presenting several options for creating a path behind animated objects. Google's DSPL (DataSet Publishing Language) Title Description DSPL: First Contact                                                        A first look at DSPL with a simple example showing how to plot two columns of numbers as a function of time (years) MatPlotLib for Python Title Description MatPlotLib Tutorial #1                                                        An introduction to the MatPlotLib Python library allowing you to generate MatLab-style graphs in Python. Arduino Title Description Introduction to the Arduino                                                        An in-class introduction to the Arduino. Not useful if not accompanied by in-class presentation. Refer to the Arduino Web site if working on your own. * Arduino and XBee Communication A quick presentation of communication between an Arduino sending characters of the alphabet via an XBee to another XBee connected to a Windows PC. XGrid Programming at Smith College These tutorials and examples are taken from the pages I maintain for the XGrid working group at Smith College. More information can be found in the Smith XGrid page. Title Environment/Language          Controlling the XGrid from the Command Line Command Line Running the Mandelbrot demo program XCode Tutorial Part 1: Monte Carlo Python Tutorial Part 2: Processing Wiki Pages Python Tutorial Part 3: Monte Carlo on the Science Center XGrid Python Introduction to the XGrid Part I: Generating histograms in parallel. Perl Introduction to the XGrid Part II : Creating a pipeline. Perl Running a C program: The N-Queens Problem on the XGrid C Running a Perl script on 10,000 files], Version 1 Perl Running a Perl script on 10,000 files, Version 2: faster I/O Perl Running a Perl script on 10,000 files, Version 3: Batch Scheduling. Perl A pipeline in Perl: this version uses a graphical utility to create the batch file.         Perl Generating Batch Files in Plist Format PList Format Counting the number of hosts in an XGrid Python Running Qt C++ Programs on the XGrid Qt C++ Programming FAQ XGrid Hadoop/MapReduce Computation at Smith College See the Hadoop/MapReduce Tutorials page for up-to-date information. Tutorial Comments Tutorial #1 Running WordCount written in Java on the Smith College Hadoop/MapReduce Cluster Tutorial #1.1 Creating timelines of the execution of tasks during the execution of a MapReduce program. Tutorial #2 Running WordCount in Python on the Smith College Hadoop/MapReduce Cluster Tutorial #2.1 Running a streaming Python MapReduce program on XML files Tutorial #2.2 Running C++ programs under Hadoop Pipes Tutorial #3 Running Hadoop jobs on Amazon AWS Tutorial #3.1 Uploading text to S3 and running Amazon's WordCount Java program on our own data. Tutorial #3.2 Uploading and Running our own streaming version of the WordCount program on AWS. Tutorial #3.3 Computing the cost of maintaining a cluster of 6 MapReduce instances on Amazon's AWS Tutorial #4 Start a server on Amazon's EC2 infrastructure C++ with Qt 4 Title Description          Tutorial #1 : Creating a simple application with VC++ 2003. Tutorial #2 : Simple signal/slot experiment with VC++ 2003.                                                                                                   Tutorial #3 : Creating an application from the console (without IDE). Tutorial #4 : Using a Python script to generate the project around a .ui file. Tutorial #5 : Adding a debug window and facility to a form. Tutorial #6 : The implementation of a memory module for a computer simulator. Tutorial #7 : Using a QTableWidget to show data in a tabular form. Tutorial #8 : A simple listView model/view example (taken from Qt's doc) Tutorial #9 : A model/view implementation of a 2 dimensional array Tutorial #10 : Launching a subprocess... C++ with Qt4/Qt Creator Title Description          Hello World (Console Mode) : Creating a simple console Qt4 application with Qt Creator.           Read MySql Table (Console Mode) : Access a MySql database and read the contents of a table. PyQt3 Title Description          Tutorial #1 : Creating a simple form with PyQt.                           PyQt4 Tutorial #1: Creating a simple editor window in Qt 4. PhPRunner MySql tutorials Tutorial #1: A quick intro to PhpRunner and MySql. Tutorial #2: Playing with SQL queries. MySql tutorials Tutorial #1 and exercises: creating tables, generating SELECT queries. Tutorial #2 and exercises: Update queries, and left join operations. BioInformatics Labs in Proce55ing These labs were created as an introduction to Bioinformatics using the language Processing. Some of them are very short. Others require some amount of programming. Lab #0: Introduction to Proce55ing Lab #1: Retrieving DNA sequence from database Lab #2: Retrieving protein sequence from database Lab #3: Aligning sequences in Proce55ing Lab #4: Finding repeats in DNA sequences with Proce55ing Lab #5: Finding repeats in DNA sequences using a Web-server Lab #6: Playing with FoldIt! Lab #7: Sequence Logos with Proce55ing Lab #8: Sequence Logos on the Web Lab #9: Where/How do I get proteins? Lab #10: Finding the secondary structure of a protein Miscellaneous Links and Resources E Coli sequence in FASTA format A good tutorial ( pdf ) on Processing by Josh Nimoy, from NYU. Assembly Crash Course This is a one-evening crash-lab on assembly language. This is a good introduction to the 80X86-family assembly for students with no background in assembly, and taking a microprocessor-based course. Creating Printed-Circuit Boards Title Description          Tutorial: Printed-Circuit Boards With thanks to Paul Voss for his sharing his tools and secrets! Xilinx ISE and The CoolRunner II CPLD Title Description          Lab #1: Schematics: Simple gates A first lab/tutorial illustrating how to create a digital circuit from schematics and testing its behavior with the ISim simulator. Lab #2: Verilog Lab 2 in the series. The same 2-bit adder, but this time in Verilog. Lab #3: Sequential Circuit Schematics A 3-flip-flop sequential circuit activating two blinking lights and behavior simulator. Lab #4: 4-Bit Adder in Verilog Lab 4 in the series. We use two modules to build a 4-bit adder made of four full-adders. Xilinx ISE 13.4 Installation Guide Extensive installation guide for ISE 13.4 on Windows 7 PCs SQLite and Processing Title Description          Tutorial #1 A simple approach using Processing's IDE                          Tutorial #2 Using Eclipse Introduction to Processing A quick introduction to the language Processing, with some references and links.