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Websites
Some Websites of Interest to CS Students
| slashdot | http://www.slashdot.org | |
| "News for nerds, stuff that matters" | ||
| http://www.google.com | ||
| The best search engine on the planet. | ||
| delicious | http://del.icio.us | |
| An excellent link collector, bookmark stasher, collaborative filter something or other. A very good place to look and scan links to see what might be of interest. | ||
| metafilter | http://www.metafilter.com | |
| Metafilter and linkfilter (below) are places where people post (often with brief commentary) links that might be of interest to others. Can be very rewarding. Metafilter tends to be more selective than linkfilter and there doesn't seem to be any way metafilter will take on new users. | ||
| linkfilter | http://www.linkfilter.com | |
| Like metafilter but anyone can join, post links and so on. | ||
| dictionary | http://www.dictionary.com | |
| Used to be the best online dictionary. Perhaps the wikipedia dictionary will do better in a bit. Now you'll find some words marked as "Premium content" for which you are supposed to pay. Try "define:word" in google too. | ||
| mozilla | http://www.mozilla.org | |
| Mozilla is now several browsers and a mail reader and who knows what else. The mozilla based "firefox" browser is my standard browser. | ||
| sourceforge | http://www.sourceforge.net | |
| sourceforge is a site that hosts open source projects. Lots of goo stuff here. | ||
| freshmeat | http://www.freshmeat.net | |
| software announcements. Primarily open source stuff - but not exclusively so. | ||
| the jargon file | http://www.jargon.org | |
| I'm told that reading this file will help you understand some of my vocabulary. Things like "cruft" vs "kluge" and so on. | ||
| The Software Interview | http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html | |
| Yup, this is it. Oddly when I did a mock interview in a class one day I was seriously criticized by one of the students for evaluating the person on exactly this kind of criteria. Perhaps he'll find out some day. | ||
Other websites of interest
| Internet Movie Database | http://www.imdb.com | |
| All about movies. | ||
| wikipedia | http://www.wikipedia.org | |
| The wikipedia is a user authored encyclopedia based on a wikiwiki. It is both informative and interesting in many ways. | ||
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