CSE 142: Computer Programming I, Autumn 2009

Links

Computer Science Major:

• University of Washington - Why Choose CSE?
• University of Colorado - Why Computer Science?

Student Organizations:

• ACM: Association for Computing Machinery (the main CSE student organization)
• ACM-W (focuses on diversity and women's issues in computing)

Software:

• Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer (a free viewer so you can see the lecture slides)
• OpenOffice.org (free office software that is compatible with Microsoft Office)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader (to view PDF documents)
• WinDiff (compares text files on Windows)
• Free Microsoft software through MSDN Academic Alliance (You have to get an account first; go to the page at this link, find the email address for the CSE MSDNAA Administrator, and send email to them that tells them your @uw.edu address and asks for your account name/password.)
• FireFox web browser

Programming:

• Java API documentation
• Java tutorial
• Sun's official Java coding conventions
• CSE 142 style conventions, by TA Ian Gienger

Other:

• Hacker's Dictionary

Do you know a good link for aspiring computer scientists that is missing from our list? Email it to us!