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00:01 Welcome to the tutorial on Overview of Grace.
00:06 In this tutorial, we will learn about,
00:11 The Grace program
00:14 The Grace parent website
00:17 Online example files and forks
00:21 Qtgrace fork website
00:25 Grace project file structure and Benefits of Grace
00:32 We will also play excerpts of Grace tutorials, available on this website.
00:40 To record this tutorial, I am using

Ubuntu Linux 16.04 OS

00:50 Firefox web browser 70
00:53 Gedit text editor 3.18 and
00:59 A working internet connection
01:02 To follow this tutorial, Learner should have knowledge of basic Mathematics.
01:09 The files used in this tutorial are available in the Code Files link.
01:15 Please download and use them while practising.
01:20 Grace is a graphical 2D plotting program, for graphing and data fitting.
01:27 The official website of Grace is shown here.
01:33 Open your default web browser and go to the Grace website.
01:41 A web page opens. We will learn about the Grace parent website.
01:47 Scroll down the page.

Notice the details about Grace in the page.

01:54 Go back to the top of the page.
01:57 Click on the Gallery link.
02:00 From here, we can download several Grace example projects and output files.
02:07 I will click on charts.png.
02:11 Notice the different types of graphs, Grace can draw for you.
02:16 You may pause the video and explore the example files on this page.
02:22 They are drawn in various plotting styles.
02:26 Go back to the Grace homepage.
02:29 Click on the Related projects and links on top of the page.
02:34 The page refreshes.

Scroll down the page.

02:40 Notice the section, which lists, Projects using Grace as plotting backend.
02:47 Many popular science programs are listed in this section.
02:52 These programs incorporate Grace for their plotting needs.
02:57 Scroll up the page to Forks or Modifications link.
03:03 Due to the high popularity of Grace, many forks and modifications are available.
03:10 There are several options for the user here.
03:15 Windows users may use the QtGrace fork.
03:20 Click on the Qtgrace link.

Let’s go to Qtgrace website.

03:27 QtGrace can be downloaded from this site.
03:31 Qtgrace is a fork of Grace with Nokia Qt SDK tools.
03:38 This is a developer tool with the ability to create applications for various OS.
03:45 QtGrace has a few added features compared to it’s parent, Grace.
03:51 Now let’s open a Grace project file.
03:55 Go to Desktop. Notice the file, line.agr.
04:01 This is a Grace project file.
04:04 This file is provided to you in the Code files link of this tutorial.
04:10 Open this file using a text editor.
04:14 I will open the file in gedit text editor.
04:19 Windows users may use notepad or wordpad software.
04:25 The graph projects are written in a text format by Grace.
04:30 Scroll down to view the project file.
04:33 Grace project files are written in a simple text format.
04:38 Hence, the projects files can be made programmatically, without the Grace GUI.
04:45 Close the file by clicking on the x sign.
04:49 Who can use Grace.
04:52 Teachers & students can use Grace for various types of data analysis.
05:00 Students can analyse, laboratory generated data or for data fitting.
05:07 Teachers may analyse student statistics on marks or attendance.
05:14 There are several benefits of using Grace.
05:18 Grace is widely used by the scientific community.
05:22 The graph can be incorporated programmatically.
05:27 Now, we will briefly go through the individual tutorials created in this series.
05:34 The first tutorial in the series is Installation and Introduction of Grace.
05:40 This tutorial explains about,

Installation of Grace

05:46 Opening the Grace interface
05:49 Resizing a graph panel and
05:53 Loading a project
05:55 Here is the video clipping of this tutorial.
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06:12 Next tutorial in the series is Installation of QtGrace on Windows OS.
06:18 In this tutorial, learner will,

Download QtGrace

06:23 Set user preferences
06:26 Resize the graph panel and
06:29 Load a graph project
06:33 Here is the video clipping of this tutorial.
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06:49 The next tutorial in the series is Creating a 2D Graphical Plot.
06:55 This tutorial explains about,

Changing color, symbol and line style

07:02 Adjusting axis limits and grid
07:05 Adding title and axis labels
07:09 Here is the video clipping of this tutorial.
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07:25 Next tutorial in the series is on Bar Chart and Error Bars.
07:31 This tutorial explains about,

Drawing a bar chart

07:37 Using strings for axis tick marks
07:41 Editing a dataset in Grace and
07:44 Incorporating error bars
07:48 Here is the video clipping of this tutorial.
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08:05 Next tutorial in the series is Data Fitting.
08:09 This tutorial explains about ,

Data Fitting for a straight line and

08:15 Adding more than one dataset to a graph panel
08:20 Here is the video clipping of this tutorial.
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08:39 Next tutorial in the series is Fit an exponential decay curve.
08:45 This tutorial explains about,

Add multiple graph panels in the canvas

08:52 Write an equation for data fitting and
08:56 Fit a given dataset to an exponential decay curve.
09:00 Here is the video clipping of this tutorial.
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09:18 Later on, we may add more tutorials in this series.
09:23 These tutorials will be available on this website.
09:28 Now, let’s summarize.
09:31 In this tutorial, we learned about,
09:35 The Grace program
09:37 The Grace parent website
09:40 Online example files and forks
09:44 Qtgrace, which is a Windows fork
09:48 Grace project file structure
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