The University's page on Unix systems. Very Useful!
http://www.udel.edu/topics/os/unix/index.html
Sometimes it helps to see another teacher's perspective on a subject.
Professor Conrad's CISC105 webpage:
http://udel.edu/~pconrad
and his Strauss via PC help page:
http://copland.udel.edu/~pconrad/UnixAtUD/
TA Sara Sprenkle's website for CISC105:
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~sprenkle/acad/cisc105/
Software for home use
This course is designed so that you can do all the work at the Udel
computer labs. However, some people like to configure their machines
at home so that they can do work there also.
If you are running Mac OS X, you already use Unix, and you have ssh and emacs. Go into the Terminal app and type "emacs". If you want a windowing version of Emacs, first get Apple's free X11 program (it may be on your extra CD that came with the computer). Then go to fink.sourceforge.net, get Fink Commander installed, and get the emacs package from there.
Software to connect PCs and older Macs to Strauss:
MOST STUDENTS WILL EITHER WORK IN LABS OR USE SSH FROM HOME. Below are other options, but they are fussier to get working and require you to keep track of files on your computer vs. files on Strauss.
Want to have mouse-friendly Xwindows from Strauss appear on your PC (high speed connections only)? Check out Cygwin (free) by typing the name into a search engine; and eXceed (not free) at
http://www.udel.edu/topics/connect/sw/exceed/docs/
The programs above let you log into Strauss remotely. If you just want to practice with Emacs or edit files at home, you can get Emacs for your home machine free. However, be aware that Emacs does not have a compiler - you would have to get one of those separately (Cygwin and Linux have both emacs and compilers).
Emacs is a simple, powerful editor used by programmers, but also by many other computer users. I will use it in almost every lecture as you learn C. Emacs is available for you to use on the UD Unix machines, but you can also download it free for your own computer. This site has links to both the software and online user manuals:
Emacs for Windows. You may need to download WinZip to get this to work. Most people will want the one called emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz
Other emacsen:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
When you get emacs working on your PC, please send me any tips I can share with others. Thanks!