--- title: Open Source Tools Every STEM Student Should Know About description: A curated overview of seven open source tools beneficial for STEM students: Jupyter Notebook for interactive coding and data analysis, VS Code as a versatile... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-tools-every-stem-student-should-know-about-9heccxrpm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Open Source Tools Every STEM Student Should Know About | daily.dev og:description: A curated overview of seven open source tools beneficial for STEM students: Jupyter Notebook for interactive coding and data analysis, VS Code as a versatile... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-tools-every-stem-student-should-know-about-9heccxrpm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9HecCxrpm.png og:image:alt: Open Source Tools Every STEM Student Should Know About og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Open Source Tools Every STEM Student Should Know About **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 7 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A curated overview of seven open source tools beneficial for STEM students: Jupyter Notebook for interactive coding and data analysis, VS Code as a versatile code editor, GeoGebra for math visualization, Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration, Blender for 3D scientific visualization, and OBS Studio for recording presentations. 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