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Association of Computing Machinery CS Student Resources

ODU CS Resources

  • Department of Computer Science
  • Computer Science Dept. Account Creation, see the link on the CS Dept. Homepage on the left under "Online Services"
  • Systems Group (UNIX/Shell accounts, CS labs, and more)
  • ELMS - Through a special partnership with Microsoft, we can offer CS students extremely low-cost copies of Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista Business Edition, Visual Studio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, and more!
  • Computer Labs - There are 2 computer labs open to CS Students (in addition to the ones made available by OCCS [1].) One is in Dragas Hall (formerly Hughes Hall) 1111K (Problem Solving Lab) and the other lab is Room 3104 in the E&CS Building (3rd floor, Open Research Lab). CS Lab Hours A Scanner with premium Adobe software is available in the Problem Solving lab in one of the back rows closest to the window.
  • If the CS Dept. Webserver is down you can access URL's in the form http://www.cs.odu.edu/~username at http://eternity.cs.odu.edu/~username -- "interactive" applications and auto directory listing could be crippled but most pages should work fine
  • Proxy Card Access - All CS majors and students taking a CS course are eligible to replace their current student ID with a "proxy card" that has an RFID chip in it so they can access the E&CS building and the CS Dept. Open Computer Lab (3rd floor) at any time. This access is also available for the Dragas Hall (formerly Hughes) computer lab. A one-time fee of $10 payable in the CS office (See Shannon) is charged for the card and fees related to granting access. See this page for more details
  • ODUCS wcsnet setup: (Available in 3rd and 2nd Floor E&CS and Dragas Hall (formerly Hughes)) Windows XP SP2 Windows Vista Mac OS X For Linux E-mail Josh Robertson at jroberts@cs.odu.edu (MAC address or your wireless card is needed, use ifconfig command to obtain it, Josh will e-mail you the WEP key necessary)
  • Publish Webpages Simply put files in the public_html folder on your UNIX account or Z: drive and you can access them at www.cs.odu.edu/~username
  • TechLunch Archives HERE are the slides from a series of technical discussions at ODU in Spring 2007.
  • fred in the Dragas CS office and burt in the E+CS CS office (3300) allow you to scan any document or book to a PDF to go directly to your email account. Please ask the office staff for assistance if you need help.
  • Safari Books Online: access to any book O'Reilly has ever published on Safari on that website from any computer on campus. Students and faculty can access it from off campus through the library http://www.lib.odu.edu/resources/databases/MandCS/index.htm (scroll down to the Safari Books Online link)

ODU Resources

ACM

General Resources

  • How To Ask Questions The Smart Way - Once you get past the "elitist" tone of this article, this is a good guide to how to frame your questions. This can apply to communications with your professor, asking questions in class, or communicating on a technical IRC channel or listserv. Most of these principles also extend outside the technical realm.
  • Freenode IRC Network - IRC network that has help channels for all popular programming languages and many common open source software packages

Programming Resources

C++

Java

Unix/Linux Resources

FREE Downloads

Free as in free beer, and sometimes as in free speech!

Portable

  • Portable Apps - Versions of Firefox, Gaim, OpenOffice.org, Filezilla, Nvu, and more useful programs suitable for putting on your flash drive and running anywhere (or H: drive in OCCS labs or Z: drive in CS labs)
  • PuTTY Portable (portable apps) is a version of PuTTY that stores keys, etc. in files and not the registry

Programming Resources

Unix/Linux Resources

  • Xming Downloads Xming notes - Free, Open Source X server for Windows (for free copy of Starwin X server for ODU students/faculty/staff only see here)
  • Cygwin - UNIX/Linux tools for your Windows box

Other Programs

  • Firefox - the Mozilla project's award winning "alternative" web browser for Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.
  • OpenOffice.org is a FREE Office software suite running on Windows, Linux, and Mac (NeoOffice) that maintains a high level of compatibility with Microsoft Office files
  • PDFCreator - Create PDF files on your computer for FREE on Windows
  • 7-ZIP Free ZIP file creator, extractor, etc. with support for many, many other archive formats as well on Windows
  • FileZilla FTP and SFTP client of choice for Windows
  • PuTTY is the SSH client of choice for Windows
  • ClamWin FREE (non-realtime) Antivirus for Windows (for free copy of McAfee Virusscan Enterprise for ODU students/faculty/staff only see here)
  • Nvu is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor for Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.
  • Pidgin is an open source instant messenger (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, and *lots* more)
  • Real Alternative and QuickTime Alternative provide easy access to RealPlayer and QuickTime content without the respective official programs
  • InfraRecorder provides a free and complete CD/DVD burning solution
  • VLC Media Player plays a wide variety of video and media formats, including DVD videos, right off the bat.

Games

Because we all need a break from schoolwork!

  • BZFlag - A popular multi-player tank battling game
  • Freeciv - A free software, multiplayer clone of Sid Meier's Civilization II by Microprose
  • CUBE and Sauerbraten - FREE Multiplayer First Person Shooters

Help us out!

Have you got a cool link you think should be included here, or want to report a dead or misdirected link? E-mail ACM ( acm [at] cs [dot] odu [dot] edu )

Thanks for your input!

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