CS5014 Course Notes

Fall 1995

by Prof. Marc Abrams

Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, abrams@vt.edu

1. Introduction: What Is Experimental Computer Science?

2. Computer Tools
   1. World-Wide Web Browsers
   2. LaTeX and BibTeX (Also see Neill Kipp's presentation on the electronic thesis and dissertation submission project)
   3. gnu emacs
   4. gnuplot

3. Experiment Design

4. Literate Programming

5. Technical Communication

6. Research Process

7. Using the Library

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   Please send inquiries and commments to abrams@vt.edu.