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Association of Computing Machinery CS Student Resources

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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.
  • The Virtual Computer Lab offers remote desktop access to any CS student to nearly all software available in the OR lab. Visit this webpage for more information.

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!

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Thanks for your input!

-Dave Harris

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