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Your UWNetID account Students in this course are expected to have UW accounts on Dante and will use those accounts for many assignments. Staff or faculty accounts on Homer can also be used. For information about obtaining and managing a UWNetID account, see the UW Computing and Networking home page. All class e-mail will be sent to those accounts. If you normally read e-mail on an ISP or through some other connection, you may wish to have your UW e-mail forwarded there. Once you have a UWNetID, it's easy to set up mail forwarding using the services at Manage Your UW NetID Resources. Computing at the UW The UW provides numerous labs around campus (locations). Some of them are general access and others are offered by specific departments and may have access restrictions. The two labs most commonly used by students in this class are the Mary Gates Hall Computing Resource Center and the Odegaard Undergraduate Library Computing Commons. Computing at Home The software used in this class runs on Windows PCs. In some, but not all cases, versions may be available for Mac or Linux systems. The closer your home PC is to the Windows PCs in the labs, the less likely you are to have problems. You are not required to work on UW computers, but course staff can provide only limited assistance in debugging problems with home computers. UW provides software for making secure remote connections to Dante. All the tools you need are contained in the UWICK Connectivity Kit, a CD-ROM available for purchase at the Bookstore. You can also download the essential programs (the "Starter Kit") for free. Both Mac and Windows versions of the Starter Kit are available. You should have an up-to-date version of a modern browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Opera. These are available free on the Web. To view some of the course files, you need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free. For programming, we will use JavaScript to produce dynamic HTML. Your programming efforts will be published to your Dante Web account. Students enrolled in this course may be eligible to download certain Microsoft software products for free. The procedure may vary depending on whether you are registered under CSE or INFO. In the labs, we will use Adobe Photoshop for some exercises. This software is expensive to buy. You can do what you need to with a number of other free or inexpensive tools, such as Microsoft Paint, Microsoft Photo Editor, Kodak Imaging, etc. You may also find that your word processor (e.g. Word) or presentation software (e.g. PowerPoint) has some image processing software built in. The last part of the quarter studies Databases and uses Microsoft Access as the tool.  The standard MS Office Suite does not come with Access.  All labs on campus have it.  If you wish to purchase a copy, the cost was roughly $100 (last time we checked). FREE Microsoft Software Though a program called the Microsoft Academic Alliance, Microsoft has generously made certain of its software available free to students enrolled in CSE courses.  Information about the program may be found at http://www.cs.washington.edu/lab/sw/MSDNAA/ms-sw.html As it is currently set up, you should receive information automatically by e-mail during the third or fourth week of the quarter.  The program is not administered by the staff of FIT100.   If you have problems or questions, please seek information from the page above.

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