CS 334: Software Tools

Software for CS 334

• A Good Text Editor: While you can ssh to our lab computers to complete the programming parts, it should be relatively easy to install everything you need to program on your own computer as well. Regardless, you'll want to have a good text editor installed on your own computer. It's entirely personal preference, but a few I'd recommend are:

  • Atom
  • Emacs
  • VSCode

  There are versions of these for Mac, Windows, Linux. And they each have many extensions to support different programming languages, latex, markdown, etc.

• git: We'll use git repositories stored on our GitLab server -- you will recieve email about setting up your account -- for programming exercises. More details on this later, but you will want to install git if you are using your own computer.