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Introduction For New Computer Science Students On CDF.

Welcome to the Department of Computer Science!

The Department of Computer Science has a number of student computing laboratories on the St. George campus. Together, they make up the CDF ("Computing Discipline Facility"). The computers in our CDF labs run a Linux operating system.

Using The Window Manager

You will find that you can customize KDE in many different ways, and KDE comes with a helpful utility (see Settings in the KMenu). If at any time you want to return to the KDE defaults that were set up for you, you just need to click on the bell icon in the bottom panel of your desktop.

Common CDF operations

The CDF system changes when the system administrators think of better ways to do things, and this page may not be totally correct. You may hear about changes from messages on the system, or by simply noticing the new behaviour of a command or the existence of a new icon.

The Internet

CDF provides an Internet connection allowing communication among students and instructors: electronic mail, on-line news, and the World Wide Web. There are some limitations on what you can do; certainly, for example, you must not tamper with CDF or any other system, and you must follow the rules in the University’s policy on Appropriate Use of Information Technology

Working at home

To prepare programs for your courses, you do not have to be on-site. If you have a computer at home, you may be able to use it to supplement or replace CDF, or to login to the server from home.

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Introduction For New Computer Science Students On CDF.

Using the Window Manager

Common CDF operations

The Internet

Working at home

Welcome to the Department of Computer Science!

Using The Window Manager

Common CDF operations

The Internet

Working at home