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See also: Weather-API-and-public-data

Useful software to download to your laptop

• git - the open source version control system used by github.
• Cygwin - for a Linux like environment (with all the usual languages and tools) on Windows
• Eclipse - If you need/want a general purpose development environment.

useful packages for manipulating netCDF data files

• nco - general
• cdo - climate data. (also works on GRIB files)
• R - a rather complex statistical language which includes netcdf interface (RNetCDF and Ncdf packages, RNetCDF includes routines to convert time axes to dates)
• IDV - a java based GUI for, downloading, displaying, and manipulating gridded data.
• [panoply] (http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/) - a nice and efficient viewer for netcdf and other gridded data sets.

Tutorials

git

• Git Community Book - a good resource for git basics
• git

JavaScript, HTML, CSS (aka front-end development)

• w3schools JavaScript tutorial beginner's JavaScript

• use bl.ocks.org to share examples e.g. http://bl.ocks.org/2305935

• jQuery

• Bootstrap

• Data visualisation with d3 Clinton will be at the Exeter challenge, so if you've got questions....

• This blog post list what a pro needs to know - for the purpose of a hack-day it's useful to know what others might know but learning all this stuff is overkill.

• Try your pages here rwd-demonstrations

C++ for Microsoft Windows (free but you need to register)

You'll need both of these

• Visual Studio
• Windows SDK

For general help and tutorials see also

• code.msdn
• Cplusplus

Google Chart Tools

• developers.google.com/chart