Computing

For the most part, it’s best to have a Mac computer since it has access to both Microsoft Office within a Unix-based environment.

Installing through App Store

XCode

First and foremost, XCode. This contains numerous optimized codebases such as C, Fortran, etc all needed by the mac.

Software

Iterm

• Website: https://www.iterm2.com/
• Purpose: Improved terminal for logging into servers

Brew

• Website: https://brew.sh/
• Purpose: Installs easily numerous packages that are often missing in MacOS
• Install Python3:

  brew install python

R + R/Studio

• Website: https://rstudio.com/
• Purpose: R Statistical language and a GUI interface for working within R.

 

GitHub

• Website: https://desktop.github.com/
• Purpose: Versioning tool for interfacing with Git/Github

Slack

• Website: https://slack.com/
• Purpose: Work messaging service

MacDown

• Website: https://macdown.uranusjr.com/
• Purpose: Rendering and composing Markdown code.

Sublime Text

• Website: https://www.sublimetext.com/
• Purpose: A highly robust text-editor for Mac

Visual Studio Code

• Website: https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Purpose: A functional coding environment

Google Chrome

• Website: https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Purpose: A development environment for web-pages

Cisco VPN

• Website:  https://vpn.usc.edu
• Purpose: Accessing USC specific content

Specialized

Jupyter

• Website: https://jupyter.org/install
• Purpose: Open source computing platform

Trello

• Website: https://trello.com/
• Purpose: Kanban style project management

MAMP

• Website: https://www.mamp.info/en/mamp/mac/
• Purpose: Development of LAMP stacks (but in MacOS