If life is beginning to feel increasingly ‘samey’, it might be time to switch things up and learn something new. Of course, you might feel that you are reeling from too much change already, and that is also fine. In…
Tag: computing
Borrow a laptop and work the way you want
You want to travel light, work flexibly and sit where there is space. That’s why as well as logging on to any of our desktop PCs, you can borrow any one of over 400 full-sized, high power laptops with charging…
Introducing two new computing and robotics ebook collections
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…
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…
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