CISXX
Resources

Getting Started with your SEAS/Eniac Account

• Bulletin Board: How to join and use the course bulletin board.
• Your Eniac/SEAS/unix account, managed by CETS:
  • Request an account
  • CETS Student Guide (mail forwarding, remote access, personal websites, etc)
  • CETS Answers (FAQ's)
• How to do well in this course

How to Access Your SEAS/Eniac Account Remotely (say, from home)

• How to log on to your eniac account from your Linux/Mac/Windows machine
• How to transfer files between your Linux/Mac/Windows machine and your eniac account
• How to set up Remote Access and Remote Windowing for EMACS via X11 forwarding
• (so when you connect to SEAS/Eniac remotely you can run programs with menus/GUI's such as emacs)
• for Mac, getting an X11-enabled terminal window
• for Windows, putty

Java

• DrJava:
  • Installation Instructions
  • DrJava Primer (introductory tutorial)
  • www.drjava.org
  • How to Use the DrJava Debugger
  • How to use history (.hist) files
  • Jars and DrJava
• Eclipse:
  • Introductory Lab
• Operator Precedence Table
• Testers: How to use the "testers" we supply for some labs and homework
• API Java 1.5 Documentation
• Books/Docs (free, online)
  • Eck's "Intro to Programming Using Java"
  • "Java Tutorial" from Sun
  • "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel
  • Online Java Textbook
  • Java for C/C++ Developers (by Scott Stricker, IBM)   NEW, FALL '07
    First published on the IBM developerWorks Java technology zone:
    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java 
• Coding Conventions
  • Local Coding Style Guidelines
  • Sun's Java Coding Conventions
• File I/O Tutorial
• Generics Tutorial
• Utilities
  • jar (java archive)

C and C++

• C/C++ Reference    
• Learning C from Java
• A Concise Introduction to C
• Using the GDB Debugger
• Using Valgrind

Unix