CS 106A: Programming Methodology

NOTE: This web site is out of date. This is the course web site from a past quarter, Spring 2016. If you are a current student taking the course, this is not your class web site, and you should visit the current CS 106A, Summer 2016 class web site instead. If the summer web site looks out of date too, the web page may not be updated yet for the new quarter. Please be advised that courses' policies change with each new quarter and instructor. Any information on this out-of-date page may not apply to you this quarter.

Links

This page has various useful links about our course material and about computer science. Do you know a good link that is missing from our list? Email it to us!

Computer Science Major:

Stanford Computer Science Major information
University of Colorado - Why Computer Science?
she++: Inspiring women to empower computer science
WICS: Women in Computer Science
Girls Teaching Girls to Code: a program where Stanford Women in Computer Science & Engineering teach, mentor, and inspire Bay Area high school girls
GirlGeeks (inspiring women in computing)
Stanford Academic Calendar

Java Programming:

Oracle's Java documentation
Stanford Java library documentation
CS 106A Style Guide (guidelines for coding style and design that we want you to follow on your homework)
Official Oracle Java coding conventions
Google's Java style guide

CodingBat (a useful site full of practice programming problems for Java/Python)
Practice-It!, Washington's Java practice problem web application written by Marty Stepp

Past 106A web sites:

Software:

Eclipse Java integrated development environment (an editor, compiler, debugger, etc.)

Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer (a free viewer so you can see the lecture slides)
OpenOffice.org (free office software that is compatible with Microsoft Office)
Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader (to view PDF documents)
Chrome web browser
Firefox web browser

CS 106A: Programming Methodology (Java), Spring 2016