Instructors

Nate Chambers, Michelson 366, x36838
Gavin Taylor, Michelson 355
Maj Brian Hawkins, Michelson 348 (via 346)

Course Policy

The official course policy.

Practice for Written Exams

• AY2015 6-Week Exam
• AY2015 12-Week Exam

Practice for Practica

• Your Lab 3: The 6-week practicum will consist of a challenge problem(s) similar in nature to Lab 3, where you are given a simple task with specified input/output from the user.

General Unix and Java Programming Resources

• Java 8 API documentation Bookmark this!!!
• The Unix reference.
• Emacs Essentials — a bigger list of commands — a much bigger list of commands
• the interactive Vim tutorial, and a regular Vim Introduction and Tutorial
• Java in a Nutshell great overview of Reference Types Java primitive vs reference types
• To install gnuplot for your Ubuntu box/VM, give the command:

  sudo apt-get install gnuplot-x11

  You'll have to enter your VM password. After this, gnuplot should be available. To make sure everything's good, try the command:

  echo "plot sin(x) with lines" | gnuplot -p

  If a window with a plot of the sine function pops up, you're good to go.

VMPlayer, VMs, and Setup

Please follow our detailed instructions.

Mounting your CS Department home directory in your VM

In a terminal window of your virtual machine, type the command csmount. This creates a directory named csunix/ in your home directory on the VM, and mounts your CS Department Unix home directory there. i.e. ~/csunix on the VM is the same as ~/ on your CS Department Unix account. In case you need to un-mount your CS Department Unix home directory, the command is csunmount

Submitting code for assignments

For an assignment called, e.g., "hw01", you should be writing your code in a directory with that same name, like ~/csunix/hw01 or, to be a bit more organized, ~/csunix/ic211/hw01.