Summer 2008

UNIX resources
- A Unix tutorial for beginners. It introduces the basics of the UNIX environment. You should read up on common shell commands such as ls, rm, cp, and man. (By the EE Dept. at U of Surrey, UK)
- CCSO Unix tutorial
Xemacs resources
- An Xemacs quick reference.
- Come here for quick answers to questions. Please forgive the current scarcity as we are still constructing these web pages..
C resources
- C tutorial
- C manual
- Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the origins of C and Unix. here and here
Matlab resources
- For online help, type helpdesk at the MATLAB prompt.
- Free Matlab for UIUC students: Matlab
- matlab.pdf- an instructional resource.
- matlab primer (.pdf)
- Scilab : a free Matlab clone. It runs on Windows. Not 100% compatible!
Other useful links
- Powerpoint viewer, a free program for viewing/printing Powerpoint files.
- Ghostview, a free program for viewing PostScript files.
- Adobe Acrobat Reader, for viewing PDF files.
- EWS lab locations & hours. click here
- Work from home (for students logging into EWS machines with AD password)! click here
- Printing lecture notes --- more than one per page in postscript and powerpoint.

UNIX resources