We are delighted to be able to add two new free ebook collections: Morgan and Claypool Synthesis Digital Library – everything you wanted to know about robotics NOW Computer Science eBooks – a wide variety of ebooks on everything from…
Tag: computing
The world wide web is 30 today!
Before 1989, computers were rarely networked and no world wide web of computers existed to share information via websites. The internet has existed since the 1970s, hosting messaging boards and other such protocols, now largely reneged to the dark net,…
Your computer awaits
Pull up at any PC (or iMac) or borrow laptops from any of the banks of grey lockers on the ground floor and plug it in for instant computing at a pace to suit you. You can plug in and…
Giving you what you want
Judging from feedback in successive NSS surveys, those graduating each year seem to be telling us that after years of student led change building on your suggestions and working to solve challenges that we saw caused you difficulties, we have…
New student IT training courses
The DCQE Academic Skills Unit (ASK) and the Information Services IT Training Team are currently piloting free IT training for students over in St Andrews Court. The first courses on offer will cover Google Drive and Microsoft Excel. If you…
Open Access room PC refresh
We are updating the PCs in several of our computer rooms as part of the ongoing refurbishment programme that keeps all our facilities as reliable, fresh and powerful as you would expect from a leading library.
More power to your programming: ACM has expanded
A raft of exciting new ebooks has arrived on our ACM platform, from spatial- and bio-informatics to machine learning and software evolution, the history of computing to reactive internet programming. Click here to check out our expanded offering, exclusively from…
Digital Tutors is now PluralSight
Update 31.01.17 – PluralSight Creative is now working intermittently. It does not appear possible to register to use the service at the moment. We are continuing to work with the supplier to resolve both problems. We apologise for any inconvenience. Update 10.01.17…
Programming (’80s style)
Are you old enough to remember the BBC Basic computer? Probably not if you are an undergraduate or Masters student, but back in the heady days of the 1980s there was a simple but very powerful and easy to progam…
Homage to Pong
Do you enjoy computer games? Before The Witcher and Dark Souls series, before even Sonic the Hedgehog and Golden Axe, came Pong, a deceptively simple game of virtual table tennis from Atari that in 1972 was the first ever computer arcade game. …
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