This page contains various resources on where to get help, NASM, Eclipse,
and UMBC's computing environments.
Where to Get Help
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Course Staff — You are welcome to
stop by any staff member's office hours.
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Piazza Project Forums —
We will be using the Piazza
discussion forum site for providing help with projects.
This will replace the Blackboard discussion forums that we have used
in the past. In the next few days, we will be enrolling all of you
into the system--more information forthcoming.
Forums are available for both general topics and specific
projects. Students are encouraged to ask and answer questions. This
is your forum and a chance to help each other. It
will be monitored periodically by one or more of the instructors. This is simply
to make sure of things such as incorrect information being posted, "too
much help" (e.g. code) being given, or a point that everyone seems to
be misinterpreting or not understanding. This is your chance to help
each other out, with a little help from instructors. Please make sure
that you o not use the forums as the place to ask questions that you should
be going to your instructor, TA, or a CS Help Center tutor for.
Also note that we wish to keep the Piazza forums focused on technical
matters–please refer to the syllabus for more on our Piazza policy.
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Computer Science Help
Center — first-come first-serve tutoring for select CMSC
courses (including CMSC 202). The tutor calendar for the CS Help
Center is located here.
[NOTE: we are not sure yet whether the Help Center will be open this term]
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UMBC Division of Information
Technology (DoIT) — help with your GL account
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Linux User's Group (LUG) —
the LUG typically has an installfest each
semester to assist in installing Linux and maintains an active mailing list where
people ask & answer Linux questions.
Assembly Language Programming
C Programming
- Essential C
(A 45-page summary of the C language from the Stanford CS Education Library.)
- C FAQ Index
- Some C books, if you like textbooks.
(These are optional and are cheap, if you buy used older editions.)
- The C Programming Language: ANSI C Version,
Kernighan & Ritchie, Prentice-Hall, 1988.
ISBN: 0131103628.
- Problem Solving And Program Design in C,
Hanly & Koffman, Addison-Wesley.
Fifth edition or later.
ISBN: 0321409914, 0321535421, 0132936496.
- C How to Program,
Deitel & Deitel, Prentice-Hall.
Fifth edition or later.
ISBN: 0132404168, 0136123562, 013299044X.
- C: A Reference Manual,
Fifth edition,
Harbison & Steele, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
ISBN: 013089592X.
Note: earlier editions do not cover C99.
Digital Logic
Downloads
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WinSCP
— transfer files from your Windows PC/laptop to the GL
severs
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TeraTerm Pro with SSH for Windows — a terminal emulator to connect
your Windows PC/laptop to the GL servers
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PuTTY — another
terminal emulator to connect your Windows PC/laptop to the GL
severs
Eclipse Resources
Remotely Accessing the GL Servers
UNIX/Linux Resources