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Some essential things for the computational astrophysicist

Operating system:
- your favorite Linux distro (I prefer the lightweight Xubuntu variant of Ubuntu). If you need Windows, you can run a Linux VM on top of Windows using VirtualBox
Programming languages:
- Python with numpy, scipy, pandas, astropy and matplotlib for analysis (Anaconda wraps everything up nicely for scientific use)
- C/Fortran for heavy computation (Intel’s Fortran compiler is free for students)
- LaTeX for writing papers (I use the MiKTeX package manager)
IDEs:
- vim
- emacs with chocolate-rain color scheme
- PyCharm for Python (free one year license for students)
- Eclipse for Java, photran module for Fortran
- NetBeans for C/C++
- TeXnicCenter for LaTeX
Version control: git with Github (edu account for students) or Bitbucket (signup with and .edu address for academic account)
Literature:
- Mendeley
- the arXiv
- Vox Charta
Miscellaneous:
- Time Management: Google Calendar/Keep
- E-mail: Gmail (learn how to use the keyboard shortcuts)
- Evernote, Dropbox, dexpot, f.lux
Optional stuff:
- Coffee: aeropress, french press, drip, burr grinder, good beans
- Computer: mechanical keyboard, big montiors
- Music: some nice headphones and chill downtempo jazz or thumping electro, depending on whether you have a deadline or not

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