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Additional information will be posted here throughout the course as needed.

###Installing the Course Virtual Machine

  • [Click here for a separate page with instructions to install the course VM.]({{ site.url }}/installing-course-vm.html) Note that this includes downloading a 2.5 GB virtual image that may take several hours; try to download it overnight.

###Background Lectures

  • Mark Redekopp put together several lectures recapping material that you should have learned in CSCI 103. These may be particularly helpful if you are a transfer student and your intro class was not as comprehensive as CSCI 103.

###Sample Exams

Linux/Unix Reference

Cygwin

  • Cygwin is a full-blown Unix-environment for Windows users, providing you with the gcc compiler, debugger, shell, and everything else you need.

C++ Resources

Editors and IDEs

We strongly advise you against using gedit, notepad, or other primitive editors. Switch to a professional-level environment or editor, such as the following:
  • Microsoft Visual Studio. A commercial development environment that is generally not free, but for which you can get a free license as a USC student.
  • Eclipse. A powerful and freely available development environment, which can be used both with Java and C++.
  • GNU Emacs. A powerful and freely available editor that is very customizable, and comes with a lot of support for writing and editing code. If you use Emacs, you will likely still need to know how to compile at the command line.
  • VIM. Another powerful and freely available editor that is very customizable and has support for writing and editing code. Same caveat as for Emacs.
  • Sublime Text. An increasingly popular cross-platform editor. Not free; comes with evaluation period.

GDB Debugger

Valgrind

Make

Git

  • [Git Resources]({{ site.url }}/git-resources.html)

Tutoring

  • VARC offers tutoring for this class.