ECS 156, Winter 2008

Information at a glance:

• Times/locations: lecture, TuTh 1:40-3:00, 148 Phys-Geo; discussion, M 1-2, 290 Hickey

• Professor: Norm Matloff, 3053 Kemper, 2-1953, matloff@cs
• Professor's office hours: M 2:00-3:00, Tu 12:30-1:30

• Text: Printed lecture notes, handed out in class and available as the PDF files in my lecture notes Web page

The class syllabus.

Newsgroup

Homework assignments

Old exams (e.g. W04I.pdf is Winter 2004, Exam I)

Other resources for this class:

• SimPy home page
• my SimPy tutorial
• Python home page
• my Python tutorials page
• R statistical package home page
• my LaTeX tutorial and resource page , and my tutorial on LyX, a GUI interface to LaTeX
• my tutorials on debugging, including gdb and ddd
• my Unix/C tutorials

Other software Web sites by Norm Matloff:

• His Java tutorial.

• Dr. Matloff's beginner's guide to installing and using Linux.

• His "Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text editor," and his introductions to the elvis and vim extensions to vi. The latter are much better than ordinary vi (and far, far better than pico). X11 mouse capability; subwindows (even on nongraphics terminals); infinite undo; paragraph formatting and so on.

• Norman Matloff's guide to fast debugging! See also his text-editing tips designed especially for programmers.

• Dr. Matloff's introduction to the mutt e-mail utility. Don't use pine! It was designed for people who are afraid of computers, not for computer experts.

• Norm Matloff's Chinese-language software page.