Resources

General

• CS Department Tutoring Service Click here to view the schedule of available tutors.
• ACM Web Site ( Tutoring )
• Linux Users Group ( LUG ) Web Site

• git
  • Version Control Slide Show
  • code.google.com/hosting
  • git-scm.com/downloads - Download a local git client for your personal machine.
  • http://progit.org/book/
  • Source Tree - A free git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac
  • Git Immersion - Online tutorials and access to git with a graphical interface for Mac and Windows
• Revision Control Systems
  • SVN
    • subversion.tigris.org
    • tortoisesvn.tigris.org - A popular windows client
  • Git
  • Mercurial
• To run Linux on a Windows system using VMware, follow these steps:
  1. Download the free "VMware Player" tool from http://www.vmware.com/download/player and install it on your system
  2. Choose a Linux version from among hundreds of virtual machine images at http://www.vmware.com/appliances
  3. Boot the virtual machine within VMware Player.

• VMWare - Contact Jakob Eriksson or Jon Solworth to get your account set up.

• Ubuntu

• Microsoft Software Program:
  • Dale Reed's Microsoft Software Program page
  • MSDNAA Direct Web Site:
    1. Go to https://msdn01.e-academy.com/uic_cs
    2. Your login name is your CS e-mail address ( including the "@cs.uic.edu" ) This may be a temp account if you are enrolled in CS classes but are not a CS major.
    3. Your password should have been mailed to you at the beginning of the semester. ( To your CS account. ) If you need them to e-mail it again, there is a button on the page to do that.

C/C++ Programming

• CPlusPlus.com has some good extensive documentation on C++, including the IOStream library, the string library ( and string class ), and the C standard library.
• Standard Template Library ( STL ) Documentation, including tutorials

• The GNU readline library may ( or may not ) be useful for some assignments.

• DevC++ - Version 4.9.9.2 from sourceforge

• XCode - An alternative to DevC++, for Mac users
• PortableApps.com - Provides a thumb-drive based portable platform for many applications, including DevC++
  • This page includes links to download the latest version of DevC++, including portable verions. ( Select a version with either a 32-bit or 64-bit compiler, depending on your machine, unless you know you have already downloaded their compiler previously. )
  • ( The 4.9.9.2 version from sourceforge may also be installable as a portable app. I would try installing portable apps on a thumb drive first, then downloading the DevC++ 4.9.9.2 installer, then going into portable apps and selecting "Apps -> Install a New App" and run the 4.9.9.2 installer from there to see if that installs it onto the thumb drive as a portable app. )

Systems Programming

• Linux Man Pages - A great resource for systems programming information, such as doc on fork( ), exec( ) , msgget( ), etc.

Operating Systems

• http://i.imgur.com/4sftcoo.jpg - A "map" of the Linux Kernel

• lxr.linux.no - the Linux Cross Reference. This site provides a fully browsable copy of the source code of just about every version of Linux without having to download it all first, AND provides easy searching tools and cross-linked references for easy perusal.

Software Engineering

• iceScrum
  • Instructions specific for CS 440 at UIC
  • Main site: icescrum.org
  • Online documentaiton: kagilum.com/documentation/
  • Local server: http://casetools.cs.uic.edu:8080/icescrum/
• UML
  • Papyrus, part of Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/
  • StarUML - http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/
• Software Engineering Report Template - Last Revised 31 January 2014
  • Word Format
  • PDF Format
• The Volere Web Site has free downloads of the specification template and the atomic requirement template, a.k.a. "shell" or snow card. Academic users ( i.e. students and teachers ) are exempt from the $50 requested donation, but you should be good enough to register your download(s) with your real contact information.
  • Word Format Template
  • PDF Format Template

Other Resources

• Brian Ladd's Agility Training Workshop Resources - A collection of links to development tools.
• Open Scene Graph

• Unity3D