Introduction to Computer Labs

Guili Liu M.Sc. Lab Inst.

Dept of Computer Science

University of Regina

Regina, SK S4S 0A2

Canada

Telephone: (306)585-4821

Email: guili@cs.uregina.cahttp://www.cs.uregina.ca/~guili/

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University of Regina

• 9 faculties• 23 departments• Services include Computing Service,

Physical Plant, Residence Management, Campus Clinic

• 12,167 full time and part time students (2007-2008)

• 1400 (almost) faculty and staff

Computing Service

• Provide general service to the university community

• User accounts, email, WWW home• Smart labs (Multimedia)• Public labs (Replaced in 4 years)• Smart Classroom• Wireless Service & networked printers• Evergreen Program (Replaced in 4 years)

University of Regina Scenery

• Library • Adhum Building• Language

Institute (ESL)• Wascana Lake

William Riddell Centre

• University Theatre

• Student Union

• Public Computer Labs

• Coop Office

• Faculty of Fine Arts

• Multipurpose Room

• Food court

University of Regina Old Campus

• Conservatory of Performing Arts

• Continuing Education• Seniors Centre

Department of Computer Science

CS Dept Meeting

CS BBQ 2007

CS Labs

Faculty and Staff

• 18 Faculties (professors, 3 from Xi’an Jiaotong)

• 4 – 6 Sessional Lecturers • 4 Full Time Lab Instructors (1 from Xi’an

Jiaotong)• 5 Technical Support Staff• 2 Secretaries• 1 Program Coordinator

CS Student Enrollment/Statistics

• Undergraduate Students

321 in 2003 (Fall), 278 in 2004 (Winter)

57 Graduated from June Convocation in 04

106 in 2007 (Fall)

36 graduated in 2007• Graduate Students

85 students in 2004, Graduate 11+3 in June

88 (73+15) in 2007, degree conferred to 19 (13+6)

Undergraduate Program Options

• BSc in Computer Science • BSc in CS with Business Concentration• BSc Honours in Computer Science• BSc Combined Major in Computer Science &

Mathematics• BSc in Software Systems Development • Minor in Computer Science • BSc Honours Combined Major in Computer

Science & Mathematics• Certificate in Computer Science

Joint International Programs

The cooperative agreement on academic exchange between universities are established at the university level.

• Undergraduate program 2+2 program in Engineering and CS

• Graduate program• Welcome international students• Considering 1+3 program in CS

Expense and Benefit

• Tuition fee is the double amount of Canadian students’

e.g. 2007/2008 --- $9,227

• Covered by Saskatchewan Health Care

• Living options --- university residence, rental, or home stay ($500-$700 per month)

Microsoft Academic Alliance

• The Department pays about $800US/year

• All the CS students and CS personnel become member

• Receive selected Microsoft products for home use

• These products may be used in computer labs and classrooms

Computer Science Contact Information

• Department of Computer Science

• College West 308

• University of Regina

• 3737 Wascana Parkway

• Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2

• Office Phone: 1-306-585-4632

• Fax: 1-306-585-4745

• E-Mail: depthead@cs.uregina.ca   or   

deptsec@cs.uregina.ca

Most of the lower level CS classes have labs

• Lab teaching is complementary to the classroom teaching

• Lab focuses on the practical hands on

• Lab material is online

• Lab has pre-lab conference period

• In-lab exercises and lab test

CS110 Lab Outline

Introduction to Lab Environment Solaris in CL136 Unix, C++ and Windows

    C++ Basic I/O and Data Types     Arithmetic Expressions, More on C++ I/O

    String Operations and C++ File I/O Selection Control Structures Looping Control Structure

Additional Control Structures Arrays

Functions with Value Parameters Functions with Reference Parameters

Lab Test

Undergraduate Labs

• CL105 – CS425

• CL115 – CS100

• CL122 – CS115, CS330

• CL135 – CS305, 325, 405

• CS135.4 – CS201, 210, 250, 301

• CL136 – CS110

Graduate Labs

• Graduate labs are research labs

• Funded by the research project or research funding

• Usually, under the supervision of faculty members

Classroom Building 105(CL105)• 13 Dell Dimension XPSGen4• Novell account environment • Pentium 4 Processor 550 (3.4GHz,800FSB). • 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, 256MB ATI Radeon X850 XT • 160GB NCQ Serial ATA Hard Drive • Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS THX • 20" 2001FP Digital Flat Panel Display • Windows XP • Software: Office 2000, MS Visio, MS Project, SPIM, LogicWorks• Visual Studio 2008, Maya 8.5, Virtools 3, Renderware, Java SDK,

DirectX 9 SDK, MatLab with Image Processing toolbox, LifeForms 4.0

Classroom Building 115 (CL115)

• Novell account environment • Windows XP Professional • 17" Wide screen LCD monitor • 2.4GHz Pentium 4 • 768 MB DDR PC2100 RAM • 40GB Hard Drive • DVD-ROM, 3.5"; floppy drive; accessible USB 2.0 jacks • Office: Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Works 7 • Web: Fast Menu, Firefox 2, Mozilla 7, UnFreez,

URCOMM suite, Giffy, Internet Explorer 7, MapEdit

Classroom Building 122 (CL122)

• 15 IBM Intellistation M Pro workstations• CS account environment • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS • ThinkVision L170 17" LCD Analog Flat Panel. • P4 Xeon 3.4GHz/800Mhz • 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hard drive • NVIDIA Quadro FX1100 video card • Gnu C++ tools, Emacs 21, Gnome 2 Desktop, broad selection of open

source software • Primarily used for CS 115 and CS 330. • Access restricted to specific classes. Combination required.

CL135 Undergraduate Digital Multimedia Lab

• 8 Dell Precision 530, Novell account environment • Dual Intel Xeon 1.7GHz, 20 & 40 GB hard drives • 1GB RAM, 17" LCD Flat panel • NVIDIA Quadro 2 professional graphics card • Audio: PureData, Steinberg Cubase VST • Graphics and Animation: Maya 8.5, Illustrator 10, After Effects 5.5, Photoshop 6.0, Free

Hand 10, Poser 5 • Multimedia: Premier 6.0, Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio, Flash MX 2004, The VR Worx • Publishing: Acrobat 5.0, LyX, Microsoft Office XP Professional • Software Development: Alice, Java Netbeans IDE, Java 3D1.3(OpenGL) SDK, Java

Media Framework 2.1.1e, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

• Web: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 4, Generator 2, Home

Site 5

CL135 continued

9 PowerMac G4• CS login environment • Dual 1 Ghz IBM P4 CPUs • 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hard drive • 17" Flat Panel Monitors, OSX 10.4 Tiger • Audio:PureData • Graphics and Animation: After Effects, Illustrator 10, Photoshop

CS2, Freehand 10, Maya 8.5 • Multimedia:Final Cut Pro 5, iDVD, iLife 05, Flash MX 2004,

Roxio Toast 6, Studio Pro 3, VR Works 2.53 • Publishing:Acrobat 5.0, Office X • Software Development:XCode

CL135 continued

• 2 PowerMac G5• CS login environment • Dual 2.3 Ghz IBM P5 CPUs • 2 GB RAM, 230 GB hard drive • 23" LCD Cinema Display. • Audio: Pure Data, SoundTrack Pro • Graphics and Animation: Maya 8.5, Motion, Shake • Multimedia: DVD Studio Pro 4, Director MX 2004, Final Cut Pro HD, Flash

MX 2004, iDVD 5, iMovie HD • 2 Epson Expression 1640XL Color Image Scanners • Used for interdisciplinary courses (FILM 486AH, FILM 208), multimedia (CS

325), user interfaces (CS 305) and computer graphics (CS 405). • Lab access restricted. Access card and CS account required.  

Classroom Building 135.4 (CL35.4)

• 23 PCs, Novell account environment • Windows XP Professional SP2 • 19" Dell 1901FP LCD Monitors • 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, 1GB RAM • 80GB Seagate SATA hard drive • LG DVD/CD R/W multi recorder, 3.5" Floppy drive, Accessible USB

2.0 jacks • Radeon X300 series 128MB PCI express • Integrated Realtek high definition audio with front speaker and mic jacks • Visual Studio 2008, PCSpim, LogicWorks • Primarily used for 200 level CS classes: CS 201, CS 210, CS 215, CS 250, and CS301

CL136 Solaris Lab

• 20 Sun Ray virtual display clients• CS account environment • Two servers, ssd1 and ssd2, provide graphical access to a

Solaris desktop • SunOS 5.9, Solaris 9 • Dual Sparc v9 1GHz, 8 GB RAM • Sun and Gnu C++ tools • Rational Rose CASE tools • Primarily used for 1st year CS classes (CS 110, CS 115)

and software engineering class (CS 372) • Access restricted to specific classes. Combination required.

Questions

Interesting Web sites

• http://www.uregina.ca/

• http://www.uregina.ca/esl/

• http://www.uregina.ca/isso/

• http://www.uregina.ca/international/

• http://www.uregina.ca/gradstudies/

• http://www.uregina.ca/jointdegree/

• http://www.cs.uregina.ca/

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