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Make everything as simple as possible,
but not simpler.

-- Albert Einstein

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• How to send effective e-mails & How to e-mail a Prof
• How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
• Study Guides and Strategies / Advice on Research and Writing
• How to succeed in class (study tips) & How to approach an exam
• Dealing with programming problems
• Programmer's Checklist & does your code smell?
• CS Reading List / Books
• The Beauty of Programming by Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux)
  
• The Student Learning Center offers tutoring services - please contact them for more information.

Courses

Winter 2010
• COMP 480 - Problem Solving with Computing
Winter 2009
• COMP 674 - Parallel and HighPerformance Computing

Unix/Linux

General

• Linux distribution of choice: Ubuntu
• Linux Journal, GNU- & LDP-Linux Documentation Project
  
• UNIXhelp for Users information for unix newbies.
• Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
• XLiveCD - a free X-client for Windows

Books

• Safari - O'Reily books on-line.
• Just Enough UNIX (3rd ed too) nice tutorial for using a unix system.
  
• A Practical Guide to Linux by Mark G. Sobell - basic intro w/ a solid reference section.
  
• Linux in a Nutshell - good reference.
  
• Running Linux - one of the best general purpose books for installing/running Linux.

Reference Pages

• Python & Ruby
• Regular Expressions cheat sheet
• Unix Programming Tools
• Emacs: reference card / one more quick reference / tutorial / Beginner's HOWTO
• vi: vi Reference / Mastering the VI editor (tutorial) / vim home page
  
• Unix commands: Reference / Tutorial & Reference
• Make: GNU Make / a tutorial
• bash: shell reference manual / "How to write a bash shell script"

Organizations

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)

Summer Research Opportunities

• Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) / CS REUs

• AT&T Research Labs Internships
• Fermilabs
• Microsoft Research (mostly for grad students).
• SGI Internships

Misc

• Women & Computer Science
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present (incl., but not only in CS & AI & Math)

Funny Stuff

• Find out what your profs really mean.
• Some common math terms.
• Top 20 Electrical Engineers's Terminologies.
• The Dilbert Zone
• xkcd
• If operating systems were airlines...
• If operating systems were beer...

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