Student Resources

STUDENT RESOURCES

Topic List

Undergraduate Resources

Graduate Resources

Women and Minorities Resources

Technical Resources

Miscellaneous Resources

Undergraduate Resources

Applying to Graduate School

Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School (Phil Agre)

Studying

Tips on Test-taking (Richard Felder and James Stice)

Projects

Ideas For Little Learning Projects

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Graduate Resources

Writing

How to Solve and Write Up Homework Problems. (Alan Sherman)
Advice on Writing Technical Reports. (Alan Sherman)
How to Present a Paper in Theoretical Computer Science.(Ian Parberry)
How to Write an Abstract. (Philip Koopman)
The Elements of Style (1918 edition, online). (William Strunk)
Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology. (author unknown)
An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions -or- How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper (Roy Levin and David D. Redell)
The Task of the Referree (Alan Jay Smith)
A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science Ian Parberry
Hints on Writing Technical Papers (Armando Fox)
How to write a good OOPSLA paper
Hints on good mathematical writing, by David Goss
A primer on mathematical writing, by Steven L. Kleiman

Presenting Your Work

How to give a bad talk (Mike Dahlin and others)
How to give a good talk (Mike Dahlin)
Tips on giving a presentation (Tracy Camp)
How to organize your thesis (John W. Chinneck)
On Ph.D. Thesis Proposals (H. C. Lauer)
Thoughts on the Structure of CS Dissertations (Spencer Rugaber)

Research

You and your research (Richard Hamming)
Useful things to know about Ph.D. thesis research (H. T. Kung)
How to have a bad career in research/academia (David A. Patterson)

Graduate School Survival

An Insider's Guide to Choosing a Graduate Advisor and Research Projects in Laboratory Sciences (Marshall Lev Dermer)
Graduate Study in the Computer and Mathematical Sciences: A Survival Manual (Dianne O'Leary)
Networking on the Network (Phil Agre)
How to cope with burnout (Andreas Gehmeyr)

Conducting Research

CiteSeer. Scientific literature paper search capability.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies: A collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science. Updated monthly; has nearly one million entries.
Free Online Dictionary of Computing
Treasure Trove of Paper Summaries (Stanford Software Infrastructure Group)
ACM Digital Library
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
USENIX Online Library
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Directory of Computing Science Journals.

After the Ph.D.

The Assistant Professor's guide to the Galaxy (George Beckey)
Tomorrow's Professor Listserv
So long, and thank's for the Ph.D.
Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend
Richard Feynman on Teaching
Computing Research and Academic Jobs
Tips for a Massive Academic Job Search (Ellen Spertus)
The Ph.D. Job Hunt - Helping Students Find the Right Positions (E. Lazowska)Is work hell?
Life in industrial research (John Wilkes)

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Women and Minority Resources

Women and Minorities in Computer Science

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Technical Resources

Mathematics and Theory

Basic Math Refresher. (Bill Stallings)
Number Systems. (Bill Stallings)
Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet (Steven Seiden)
The mathematical atlas
Mathworld
Numberical Prefixes (Bill Stallings)

Systems

The Emperor's Old Clothes (C. A. R. Hoare)
Hints for Computer System Design (Butler Lampson)
Coping with Complexity (Jerome Saltzer)
End-to-end Arguments in System Design (Saltzer J., Reed D. and Clark D.)

UNIX

quick command summary (Rice University)
Introduction to UNIX (Rice University)
Introduction to the XWindow System (Rice University)
UNIX Scripts (Rice University)

Latex

Not so short guide to LaTeX (Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl)
Introduction to the LaTex Document Preparation System (Rice University)

C++

gcc/g++

Compiling C And C++ Programs On Unix Systems (Guy Keren)

gdb

Debugging Using gdb (Guy Keren)
Command Summary (Sugih Jamin)

Make

Writing Makefiles (Guy Keren)
gnu Manual

gprof

QuickStart (Sugih Jamin)

UNIX Text Editors

Introduction to the vi Editor (Rice University)
vi Reference Card (Rice University)
Introduction to GNU Emacs (Rice University)
GNU emacs Reference Card (Rice University)
Using the pico text editor (Rice University)

CVS

Socket Programming

Beej's Guide to Network Programming (Brian E. Hall)

Other Cool UNIX Systems Stuff

Building And Using Static And Shared "C" Libraries (Guy Keren)
Basic Graphics Programming With The Xlib Library (Guy Keren)
Unix And C/C++ Runtime Memory Management For Programmers (Guy Keren)
Parallel Programming - Basic Theory For The Unwary(Guy Keren)
Multi-Threaded Programming With The Pthreads Library (Guy Keren)
Multi-Process Programming Under Unix (Guy Keren)

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Miscellaneous Resources

Ethics

Computer Professionals for Social R esponsibility
On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research (National Academy of Sciences)

Standards

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards - recommendations and working drafts.
Internet Standards (STDs) and Request For Comments (RFCs). Includes standards (STDs) and RFCs on major protocols such as: HTTP 1.1, SMTP, POP3,MIME, URI's, DNS, NTP, and IMAP.
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF):including Request For Comments (RFCs) and Internet Draft (abstracts).

Fun

What the professor really means (J. Timothy Petersik)
Graduate Student Humor

Big Ideas

Technology and Courange (Ivan Sunderland)
What Next? A dozen remaining IT problems (Jim Gray)
Computer systems research: past and future Butler Lampson (Microsoft Research)

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