Links to resources that will be helpful will appear here during the course of the semester. During this course students are expected to use many software
tools. Below is a list of those tools in the order that they will be
introduced in the course.
Software Tools Used in CS 453 in Order of Introduction
- Class web page at
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~cs453. You are already here. The syllabus
states that students are responsible for checking the webpage each day.
Announcements will be on the main page.
- ssh will be used to log onto the CS linux machines remotely.
The list of available machines is at the Department
Facilities page, the Workstations link. If you do not have a CS department account, then you need to contact systems at sna@cs.colostate.edu
or by going to the south side of the fourth floor in the Computer Science building.
- RamCT is the CSU provided course
interaction tool where students in 453 will (1) view lecture and recitation
video recordings at the EchoCenter link,
(2) check their grades, and (3) participate in forum
discussions on the Discussion Board.
- The checkin utility will be used to submit all assignments. If it is a homework
assignment HW1-HW4, you can scan in a handwritten version of the assignment.
Submit a pdf for the homework assignments by typing the following on a CS linux machine (replace HW1 with PA1 or HW2, etc. as appropriate):
~cs453/bin/checkin HW1 HW1.pdf
For the programming assignments
you will be submitting a tar ball whose contents will be specified in
each assignment writeup. Distance students need to email their CS linux
account names to cs453@cs.colostate.edu by Tuesday January 29th for checkin
to work.
- JLex and JavaCUP are lexer and parser generator tools. We will be introducing these tools in class and
in recitation during the first week. See Recitation 1 for an example.
These are command line tools and they will be provided as .jar files.
- Makefiles will be used in many of the recitations and most of the
programming assignments. We will be providing the Makefiles for you, but
sometimes you will have to make edits to the Makefile. Read about the
basics at a Makefile tutorial.
- Subversion and Eclipse are next.
Some form of revision control is required in CS 453. If you can produce a
commit log, then it works. We will be teaching subversion in recitation.
Eclipse is not required. We mostly use it for its debugging capabilities.
Subversion and Eclipse are introduced in recitation in week 2.
- Arduino software environment (week 3). We use the AVR-G++
tool chain. These are non-trivial to install, so it might be easier to install the Arduino environment and then press shift while the Arduino IDE
is compiling and loading the program onto the Meggy Jr. You will need to do
some compilation of C++ programs that use the Meggy Jr Simple library for
PA1. The CS linux machines have this whole tool chain installed.
By following the Meggy
build instructions, you should be able to do any compilation you
need on the command line. IF you want to download to your own device
and you are not on campus, then you will have to install this software
on your machine.
- MJSIM.jar (week 4) is a simulator
for the subset of AVR assembly code we are using in our projects. mjsim
was written specifically for this class, and we can update some issues
as you find them. We use mjsim to do command line simulation of the AVR
programs your compiler generates for grading. mjsim also has a GUI
mode that has a MeggyJr emulator. mjsim is written in Java and
provided as a .jar file.
MeggyJava
The Meggy Jr Device
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