CS Student Resources

ODU Resources

"Current Students" Homepage (very, very useful, has links to many other campus resources)
ODU Home Page
College of Sciences
Career Management Center
Perry Library
Office of Computing and Communications Services ODU (non-CS) computer accounts, services, labs, and wireless access in most buildings on campus
Software Downloads from OCCS Free downloads of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and Starnet X-Win Server for Students, Faculty, and Staff
MIDAS Activate and manage all your OCCS-supported accounts (e-mail, LAN, etc.) from this webpage
L.I.O.N.S. All ODU Students, Faculty, and Staff can have access to this OCCS-supported UNIX system
LEO Online register for classes, check billing information, and more
Office of Student Activities and Leadership (OSAL) on-campus clubs and activities
Co-Curricular Transcript Keep a log of all your volunteer hours (ODU-related or not) and organization memberships at this site, sponsored by OSAL

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

ACM International Homepage
ACM International Student Membership - Packages start at $19/year and include free online courses and 395 online e-books and subscriptions to several ACM publications
ACM Digital Library - Free access provided to all ODU students courtesy of the library, should automatically connect from computers on-campus, enter your UIN to connect from off-campus Help with Off-campus access More Math and Computer Science databases from the library

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

Microsoft Developer Network - Articles and information for using Microsoft development tools
DaniWeb is an online community for software developers with forums, tutorials, a code snippet library, etc.

C++

CPlusPlus.com - C++ resources and tutorials
SGI STL Reference - A complete reference for the C++ Standard Template Library by SGI
Draft ANSI/ISO standard for C++ (Dr. Zeil's Website)
DinkumWare Compleat Reference Online describes the portions of the C++ std library that SiliconGraphics does not (e.g., iostream, string).

Java

Unix/Linux Resources

Unix Tutorial Docs - Excellent introduction to the CS Department's UNIX system, from Dr. Steven Zeil - used in ODU's CS252 course on UNIX for programmers
ODUCS Systems Group's UNIX Shell Help Page
Tidewater Unix User's Group - Local UNIX/Linux User's Group for the Hampton Roads area, features monthly meetings and an active mailing list
Linux Links.com
Loads of Linux Links

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

Dev-C++ - FREE C++ Compiler and IDE for Windows
Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 Express Editions provide free implementations of most Visual Studio programming languages and environments, suitable for learning a language or other hobbyist programming.

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