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Software Resources Students in the Department of Computer Science have access
to a number of software resources.
- Microsoft Developers Network Academic Associates
MSDNAA. This link will
take you to the Department's portal to the MSDNAA. All students enrolled in
courses offered by the Department will be enrolled in the MSDNAA. Students
will be able to purchase products like Visual Studio.NET and Windows XP
Professional at substantial discounts. Other items as
needed will be made available through a lending library of CD-ROM's
handled in the Department's office. Warning! When you
are enrolled in MSDNAA, you will be enrolled using your SE Keys e-mail address.
MSDNAA will assign you a password and e-mail it to you at your SE Keys
address. Spam filters, especially if you forward from SE Keys to another
e-mail account, may kill the e-mail from Microsoft. Do not forward
from SE Keys. If you have internet access, there is no reason why
you can't use the university's web mail system to inspect your
SE Keys e-mail.
- The Department will be using
Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
for C++ programming. This product is part of the Visual Studio.NET product. However,
the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 is likewise available as a standalone product as a free
download. It is approximately 30 MB in size and is self-extracting. Since it runs
in a DOS box, it will run on computers that lack the power to run the full Visual Studio.NET.
- Freeware Editors: the following editors are freeware. You may download and use them without
restriction. None of them is very large, and all of them provide you with much more flexibility
and fewer "gotchas" than NotePad or WordPad. Feel free to download them and try them. Select
the one with which you feel most comfortable.
- Star Office 7.0. Students and faculty may download this product for free.
It includes a word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation software plus
other items. There are versions for Windows and Linux.
Click Here
to go to the Sun download site for Star Office 7.0. You will need to register as a user to
download. Copies for Windows and Linux will also be available on CD-ROM as part of the
Departmental software lending library.
- Open Office. This is the open source portion of Star Office. It is available
for a number of different operating systems. You may download load from the
Open Office Web site. What is new
in Open Office is the inclusion of database capability.
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