My advisors told me to prepare learning some languages like Perl, Python,
C++, in the UNIX/Linux environment. These and more will be used for solving
math problems in astro-physics. Do I need another computer? Perhaps I can
just add a separate hard drive for the aforementioned and keep my windows
hard drive intact?
How should I start? Should I find a Unix site and download the operating
system? I really do not know where to start. Any help will be most
appreciated. Thank you.
west
college freshman