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This page is a place for links to various random things that
have come up in past quarters of CSE/INFO 100. As the course
progresses, you will recognize where they fit in and why they might be
of interest. The list is likely to be updated from time to
time. People also sometimes post links of interest on the
Message Board.
- BeneFit:
a free, on-line (but non-credit) self-study version of this very course!
- Chart (660KB) showing
trends in computer power
- ASUS VX97 System Board
- Sources for tear down systems
- Snoop,
a utility program that zooms in on a small section of the display
window. Written by Yung-Yu Chuang, CSE, University of Washington, based
on the
Microsoft ZoomIn utility.
- Accelerated
Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) Red supercomputer
- The Earth Simulator
supercomputer
- Mars
Rovers
- Google Advanced
Search Operators
- A. K. Dewdney
books and articles
- Graphing calculator.
A cool tool for exploring
graphs of various mathematical curves and surfaces.
- Telephone Tones
- HTML Validator. List
of valid Document
Type Definitions.
Information about how to specify character
encodings.
- HTML
4.01 tag reference and JavaScript tutorial
from W3 Schools.
Their TryIt
Editor
is a very handy tool.
- Sorting algorithm demos.
- It's not just speed that's increasing - storage densities
are climbing
too. For example, the Blu-ray
disk
format is designed for 50 GB of data on one disk. (student suggestion).
- Body Mass
Index
calculator from the National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
- A collection of science-related Games
and
Puzzles implemented in JavaScript. Provided by Thomas Jefferson
National Accelerator Facility ( Jefferson
Lab).
- Simpson. Sorry, the related website was
destroyed
by morons and so I removed the discussion. DWJ 10/25/2004
- Web
developer documentation
from the Mozilla project. Includes good reference information about
HTML and JavaScript.
- JavaScript reference
document.
(Note: 1.2MB PDF file).
- Text editors that understand the syntax of a the page that
you are editing (aka, programmer's editors) can be very helpful. The TextPad editor for Windows is
installed in the labs
and can be downloaded for free (although it will ask you to buy it
frequently). jEdit is another
programmer's editor. It
is written in Java and so it runs on almost any operating system. It is
free,
and has lots of plug-ins that provide extended capabilities.
- There are numerous web browsers other than Microsoft's Internet
Explorer, and some of them provide capabilities not found in IE.
The Mozilla project provides a
free and
very capable browser that is particularly helpful for debugging. Opera is a relatively small, fast,
standards-compliant browser.
- W3C standards.
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