In the 16th SMACK, the very basics of LaTeX were introduced; showing how to make a basic document from scratch, set the printable size, inserting images and...

The first part of this talk will present an overview of the tool "module" and its main commands and flags. "module" provides the dynamic modification of the...

In a time when we deal with extremely large images (be it from computer simulations or from extremely powerful telescopes), visualizing them can become a...

Short Meetings on Astro Computing Knowledge (SMACK) are a series of talks, or more appropriately 'live demonstrations', presented in the Instituto de...

I will give a brief introduction to the RH code, illustrated with some examples. The code is a general purpose radiative transfer code capable of solving the...

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) is one of the most widely used open-source code packages to compute one-dimensional models for stellar...

The shell (or command-line) is the most commonly used (for advanced operations) interface to Unix-like operating systems. In this session we'll introduce some...

Gnuastro is an official GNU package that is currently maintained at the IAC. It is a large collection of programs to enable easy, robust, fast and efficient...

In the previous SMACKs, basic operations on the command-line were reviewed in interactive mode: where you enter one command, wait for it to finish and enter the...