Information and Regulations
This gives all the rules and procedures which you as a self-paced introductory must follow. You must read this. Pick up a current copy - it's updated every semester - at the Self-Paced Center.
Transaction Sheet
This is our permanent record of the work you do in the self-paced courses. It is kept in the file cabinet and kept up to date by the course manager. Any work you complete must be recorded on the transaction sheet for you to receive credit for it this se
mester. Fill out the transaction sheet in the Self-Paced Center, and sign the contract on it.
CS 9B Study Guide
Ifyou are taking this course come to the selfpace center first
Textbooks
Any Pascal textbook will work for this course. The study guide specifically mentions the following:
Condensed Pascal, D. Cooper (Norton, 1987). Buy it at a bookstore.
Standard Pascal User Reference Manual, D. Cooper (Norton, 1983). An excellent reference to Pascal, if you already know the language. It's included in Condensed Pascal, so you don't need to buy both.
System Reference Guides
EECS Instructional User's Guide to UNIX
This provides an introduction to the EECS instructional computers and to UNIX use both for novices and for experienced users. In particular, it contains information on getting a named account if you don't already have one and on dialing up to access EECS
computers. Buy it at Copy Central, either on Bancroftor on Euclid.
For more information about UNIX, the following book is good:
UNIX System V: A Practical Guide (third edition), Mark Sobell (Benjamin-Cummings, 1995).
A nice presentation and summary of the various features of UNIX, and a good reference for either the vi or the emacs text editor as well. It is aimed at people who have had computing experience. Buy it at a bookstore.