Here are some resources to help you study more effectively.
Practical Skills
- GNU Typist
- A free program to learn touch typing.
- How to Study in College
- A textbook (by Walter Pauk and Ross J.Q. Owens) with all the study skill you should have been taught in High School.
- Stanford University’s Student Learning Programs
- Reaching your academic potential can be challenging, but learning effective habits can make a significant difference.
- How to Read a Book
- You cannot read all the books in the world. Thus, it is important to maximize what you get out of books.
- Getting Things Done
- A system when a simple TO-DO list no longer works.
Memorization
- Moonwalking with Einstein
- A story about mental athletics.
- Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It
- A great book to understand why we remember some things and forget others.
- The Memory Book
- A book full of memory techniques.
Grammar
- English Composition and Grammar: Complete Course
- A great resource on standard English grammar.
Tools
- The Unix command
look - Display words beginning with a given prefix.
- The Unix dictionary
- A Perl client for accessing network dictionary servers. It contains the Computing Dictionary.
- LanguageTool
- A better alternative to Grammarly.
- GNU Style and Diction
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dictionidentifies wordy and commonly misused phrases.styleanalyzes surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other readability measures. - Org-Mode for Emacs
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Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming and more — in a fast and effective plain text system.
Document Generation
- Latex
- The best typesetting software for document generation.
- Beamer (Latex)
- Beamer is a powerful and flexible LaTeX class to create great looking presentations.
- Graphviz (Dot)
- A great way to make simple digraphs.
- TikZ (Latex package)
- TikZ is probably the most complex and powerful tool to create graphic elements in Latex.