CS Resources

Listed below are a set of resources to support CS teaching. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list, but instead a list of innovative resources that CS students, faculty and instructors might find useful.

• Discrete Mathematics
• Introductory Programming
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Operating Systems, Concurrency
• Distributed Systems
• Automata and Formal Languages
• Web Security
• Computer Graphics

Discrete Mathematics

• Teaching discrete mathematics via historical sources.
• Mathtools - Tools for teaching discrete mathematics.
• Resources for teaching discrete mathematics.

Introductory Programming

• Freebyte's guide to free programming tools and tutorials.
• Alice - a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
• Scratch - a new programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share these creations on the web.
• Resources for Karel the Robot, an introductory programming language and simulator.

Data Structures and Algorithms

• Algorithm and data structure visualizations.
• The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository - Implementations for more than seventy of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms.

Operating Systems, Concurrency

• JS/UIX - A UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a virtual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management, and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-mapping.
• Simulators for Teaching Computer Science - Java-implemented simulators to illustrate processor scheduling, producer consumer synchronization, starving philosophers, fork-pipe, disk head scheduling, address translation and concurrent I/O
• Nachos - An educational operating system simulator.
• Xinu A small preemptive multi-threaded operating system for teaching advanced programming concepts such as Concurrent Processing, I/O, IPC and Client-Server Interaction.
• Resources to support teaching of concurrent programming.

Distributed Systems

• Cloudera's Hadoop Training Virtual Machine
• DAJ - An interactive, visual aid for studying distributed algorithms.
• Distributed Programming using Java

Automata and Formal Languages

• A visual automata simulator.
• Turing machine simulator.
• JFLAP - Software for experimenting with formal languages topics including nondeterministic finite automata, nondeterministic pushdown automata, multi-tape Turing machines, several types of grammars, parsing, and L-systems.

Web Security

• WebGoat - A deliberately insecure J2EE web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons. In each lesson, users must demonstrate their understanding of a security issue by exploiting a real vulnerability in the WebGoat application. For example, in one of the lessons the user must use SQL injection to steal fake credit card numbers. The application is a realistic teaching environment, providing users with hints and code to further explain the lesson.
• Internet Devices and Services

Computer Graphics

• ACM: Repository of computer graphics software tools.
• GTT: The Graphics Teaching Tool A hands-on interactive tool for teaching computer graphics concepts.
• SketchUp - A tool to create, modify and share 3D models.
• Fractal Explorer - A powerful freeware fractal generator.