ECS 145

information at a glance:

• times/locations: lecture TuTh 10:30-11:50, 148 Physics/Geology; discussion F 1:10-2
• professor: Norman Matloff, 3053 EU II, 2-1953, matloff@cs
• TA: Vicentiu Neagoe

• reader: none
• professor's office hours: M 3:-4:30; Th 2-3
• TA's office hours: F 10-1
• text: printed lecture notes, handed out in class and available on our homework page

class syllabus

class newsgroup

homework assignments (programming and reading)

old exams

• UNIX tutorial

• Linux installation guide

Python resources:

• Python home page
• Python newsgroup

Other software Web sites by Norm Matloff:

• Professor Matloff's Unix/C tutorials.

• 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 vim extension to vi; the latter is 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.

• Professor Matloff's LaTeX tutorial and resource page, and his tutorial on LyX, a GUI interface to LaTeX

• 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.