Programming.md

Programming Guides & Tutorials

• MATLAB. The main language of SPM.
• Julia. A super-cool language for numerical computing - that few people use yet.
  • The Julia Language (pdf)
• Python. A popular language with lots of libraries (including NITorch).
  • PyTorch. GPU coding for Python.
• R. An integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display.
  • An Introduction to R (pdf). W. N. Venables, D. M. Smith and the R Core Team (2021).
• C. A compiled language.
  • C Programming Tutorial (pdf) 4th ed. (K&R version). Mark Burgess (1999).
• Cuda. Like C, but for NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Cuda C++ Programming Guide (pdf)

Version Control

• Git
  • GitHub Desktop
  • Git for Windows
  • TortoiseGit
  • Git in Visual Studio Code
  • Git in MATLAB
• GitHub and GitLab
• Documentation (pdf).

File Formats

• NIfTI. The format of the *.nii files that SPM uses.
• DICOM. The format of the files coming from the MRI scanners.

Document Preparation

• LaTeX
  • OverLeaf. The easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor.
  • UCL Thesis Template.
    • OverLeaf version of UCL Thesis Template.
  • Equation Editor for trying out equations.
• Markdown
  • Stack Edit for interactive markdown editing.
• PDF
  • Sign-PDF allows signatures to be pasted into pdf documents.