Some Useful Links (Mostly for CSCI 1320/1321)

Caveat: Last updated in 2007. Use with caution!

This page contains links to various online documents likely to be useful to students in CSCI 1320 and CSCI 1321 (and possibly students in other CSCI courses as well). (Suggestions for additions to this page are welcome; send to bmassing@cs.trinity.edu.)

Using the CS department's computers

Information (including names and current status) about machines in the public labs: About the Facilities. (Note that the complete list at Status of CS Unix Machines also includes the names of research machines not available for general use.)
Introductory hints and tips for local access.
More about remote access to the CS lab machines.

Unix/Linux

Introductory Unix hints and tips.
Forwarding, sending, and reading mail under Unix.
Dr. Hicks's Unix tutorial (under "Tutorials").
J. Oldham's tutorials on various Unix topics (file security, making your own Web pages, etc. -- old, so some broken links, but some good information too).
UNIXhelp for Users, extensive semi-introductory help on a variety of Unix topics.
Learn the Linux command line. Another extensive semi-introductory site.
Information about GNOME (GNOME is the default desktop environment installed on the department's Linux machines).

Compilers

gcc hints and tips.

Text editors

emacs:
- GNU emacs home page, including information about availability for other systems.
- GNU emacs manual.
- J. Oldham's tips for using xemacs. (Should be applicable to emacs as well.)
vi and vim ("vi improved"):
- Introductory vi hints and tips.
- "vilearn" learn-by-doing tutorial. Or type vimtutor in a terminal window.
- Vim home page, including information about availability for other systems.
- Another vim home page, by its principal author. In particular check out the links his "Seven habits of effective text editing".

Other useful tools

gdb (source-level debugger):
- J. Oldham's introduction to gdb.
- Complete documentation.
make:
- Complete documentation.