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Undergraduate Educational Resources from ACM Crossroads

This area of Crossroads is a collection of links to resources for students of computer science, management information systems, business information systems, and related fields.

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General info & Links

ACM Student Research Competition -- International student research competition hosted by the ACM.

Introductory Computer Science Courses

Intro. to Computer Science at Georgia Tech, using Scheme. Lecture notes.
Tutorials and Applets for Teaching Basic Computer Science Concepts including stacks, queues, sorting techniques, trees, searching, and hashing.
Java Programming Tutorial: Introduction to Computer Science covers most of a beginning course in computer science using Java.
Computer Science 101: Laboratory Manual contains laboratories for the courses CS 101 & 102 at Colgate University. These courses form the introduction to computer science, using the programming language C++.

Architecture

Principles of Computer Architecture draft textbook, in pdf.
Components and Design Techniques for Digital Systems course page and notes with topics such as combinational and sequential logic.
Gem an assembly and machine language emulator for use in computer organization courses. Available in Windows and Mac versions. Maintained by Greg Scragg, SUNY Geneseo.
Introduction to Computer Systems at CMU - Integer arithmetic, machine-level programming, memory management.
Computer System Architecture lecture notes at MIT.

Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent Systems at Georgia Tech. Class notes, links to LISP tutorial and other lisp resources, programming assignments.
Artificial Intelligence course materials at the University of Michigan
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course materials at SUNY, Buffalo
Artificial Intelligence course materials at MIT

Compilers

Compilers, Interpreters, and Program Analyzers at Georgia Tech. Postscript and PDF format of text "Crafting a Compiler", slides used in lectures, project assignments, homework solutions, examples.
Compilers course materials at the University of Texas.
Compiler Construction course materials, includes a link to a guide on the Spar-V8 instruction set architecture.
Catalog of Compiler Construction Tools freeware and commercial resources for compiler writers.
Compilers course materials at Rice University.

Data Structures

Data Structures Class Notes & Outline from Hanyang University, Korea.
Interactive Data Structure Visualizations This courseware contains eleven lessons that are designed to accompany an introductory data structure course, with topics such as binary trees, graphs and sorting.
Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis Course materials at the University of Michigan.
Introduction to Algorithms course materials at MIT.

Database Systems

Introduction to Database Systems at Georgia Tech. Links to Oracle documentation, C tutorial, lecture slides in Postscript and Powerpoint.
Graduate courses in database management systems course materials and resources for 3 grad level courses taught by Mary Ann Robbert at Bentley College.
ACM Transactions on Database Systems
Graduate course in Database systems lecture notes at Berkeley.
A First Course in Database Systems course materials at Stanford University.

Graphics

Computer Graphics at Georgia Tech. Syllabus area has links to the lecture notes. Programming Assignments area has links to c programming tutorial, OpenGL tutorial and other OpenGL resources, GLUT documentation, some sample GLUT programs.
Computer Graphics at Stanford University includes course materials, research projects, demos and workshops on topics in graphics.
Blue Moon Rendering Tools The Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BMRT) are a collection of (free) programs that allow previewing and rendering of 3-D scene models.
Video Demonstrations of Prototypes and Research at Alias|Wavefront.
The ACM SIGGRAPH Group the ACM special interest group in graphics.

Human Factors

Human Factors in Software Development at Georgia Tech. Lecture notes, links to HCI resources. Another section of the class also has lecture notes online.
Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines(HI Guide)
What is Human Factors? brief introduction to the topic by WebWorld.com
A First Course in GUI Programming course syllabus, readings for a first course in the design and implementation of interactive programs for MS Windows. University of Massachusetts.
Resources on HCI links to Human Computer Interaction resources.

Miscellaneous Topics

Building Ubiquitous Computing Devices and Software at Georgia Tech. A few powerpoint lecture notes in the syllabus table.

Networking

Systems and Networks lecture notes at Georgia Tech.
Computer Networks I syllabus page has homework assignments and solutions. From Georgia Tech.
Network Design and Evaluation course materials at CMU.
Computer Networks course materials at Cornell University.
Bell Labs Tech Journal

Operating Systems

Advanced Operating Systems at Georgia Tech. Sample programming assignments, exams and solutions, lecture notes and study questions, online copies of some important publications, links to related resources.
Operating Systems course materials at Brown University
Advanced Topics in Operating Systems course materials at Stanford University.
Introduction to Operating Systems course materials and lecture notes at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Concurrent Programming Using Java A collection of Java example programs relelvant to teaching operating systems and concurrent programming.

Programming Languages

Ada95 Lessons Learned -- Information on Object Oriented Programming using Ada.
Ada95 Lovelace tutorial -- A tutorial explaining the "basics of the Ada computer programming language."
Active Server Pages -- All sorts of information on Active Server Pages.
ASP -- Getting started with Active Server Pages.
ASP scripting -- Using VBscript with ASP.
PERL -- Practical Extraction and Report Language. This page is a great overview of the Perl language.

Software Engineering

Intro to Software Engineering has several online lectures.
Software Engineering Applications at Georgia Tech. Lecture slides, resource links.
Software Engineering Archives These are the World-Wide Web archives for USENET newsgroup comp.software-eng, including the Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) postings.
IEEE transactions on Software Engineering
Introduction to Software Engineering at Brown University
Software Engineering of Innovative Web Services course materials at MIT.

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