- Aside from the textbook, all readings and multimedia resources
used for the course will be available on computers. Students who sign
the appropriate forms (indicating their willingness to follow the Rules of
Acceptable Use) will receive accounts on
a Personal DECstation (fox.cs.vt.edu),
a SPARC 10 Model 40 (video.cs.vt.edu)
and a DEC Alpha (ccrd1.cc.vt.edu)
in the Computing Center. Use of other computers in McB 102 will occur
as needed, such as on machines that run under the Macintosh operating
system. Students who lack access to McB 102 should contact the
instructor to get the necessary authorization and access card.
- Once the textbook is obtained from the University Bookstore or
the Tech Bookstore, a student will be able to read those chapters listed in
the syllabus. Most of the code shown in the textbook is available online
and can be experimented with.
- Other course readings will be available in several ways. All of
the readings listed on the syllabus are available on reserve at
the library.
Since the
articles appeared in Communications of the ACM, they also should be
readily available from the library stacks or personal collections.
- As a result of Project Envision, all of the supplemental CACM
articles are available in page image form (CCITT Group IV facsimile
format). Either the xv or xtiff programs can be used to read articles,
but xprcedit is even better. The files are all stored on
video.cs.vt.edu in /u4/pages/acm/cacm and can be located given the
volume and issue numbers as well as a short key for each article.
Each article is stored in a separate subdirectory, containing a separate
file for each page. Thus, in
/u4/pages/acm/cacm/v34/n10/SAMU91a
will be six Group IV tiff files:
0000.tif for the first page, 0001.tif for the second page, etc.
- Online copies of documentation for software packages used will
be available in several forms. There will be standard UNIX-style man pages, PostScript files, and simple ASCII files.