Useful Links for Students
Professional societies
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- Digital Library (Union only): ACM journals, magazines, conference proceedings.
- Guide to Computing Literature: CS bibliographic references
- SIGS (ACM special interest groups on many areas of computing)
- student membership
- careers in computing
- IEEE Computer Society and its Computer magazine (partial access only)
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- CRA (Computing Research Association)
- ISOC (Internet Society) and IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
- a list of many computer science organizations
Research sources
- Union library, computer science online references, including access to the ACM Digital Library and the IEEE/IEE electronic library
- Virtual Library; section on computing and computer science
- JSTOR (scholarly journal archive)
- Citeseer (scientific literature digital library -- citations and full articles)
- DBLP (Digital Bibliography Library Project>
- Google Scholar: search for research and scholarly literature
- UC-Berkeley's guide to evaluating Web page information
- Virtual Museum of Computing (numerous links on computing history)
Graduate study and careers
- List of graduate programs in computer science and computer engineering
- CRA for Students: graduate programs, careers
- University of Maryland links to pages on graduate study: why, how, where.
- University of British Columbia, updated copy of Choosing a Ph.D. program in Computer Science by Rachel Pottinger, ACM Crossroads 6:1, Fall 1999.
- National Science Foundation, REUs in computing (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)
- Internships, from ACM Crossroads, 2005
Showing and telling
- Writing:
- Union library links
- The Elements of Style, William Strunk. A classic guide, also available in print, revised by E. B. White (4th ed, Longman, 2000).
- Jack Lynch's page on resources for writers, with many links
- Web pages:
- World Wide Web Consortium; its markup validator service, and CSS validator
- usability information by Jakob Nielsen; essays on current issues, particularly Usability 101 and 10 top mistakes
- Web Accessibility Initiative from w3.org
- accessibility issues, from the U. Wisconsin Trace Center.
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