11 June 2009

Cambridge Links

There are a wealth of useful websites for Cambridge students, but very few are easy to find or well known. I list here the ones that I've found and used.

Computer Science

• KuDoS Project (Churchill CS supervision arrangements)
• CST Past Papers
• CST Exam info
• CompSci talks
• Unix mirror
• CamCors (view supervision reports)
• Group Project
• Misc logic notes
• Results of cambridge PC port scans

Natural Sciences

• Camtools (physics and NST maths downloads)
• Other physics downloads
• NST Maths Papers

Email

• Hermes Webmail
• Email address lookup
• Person lookup
• Mailing lists management

Churchill specific

• Churchill College
• View traffic report
• Formal booking
• Library Catalogue
• Superior general library search engine
• Churchill JCR

11 May 2009

Minimalism: Keeping code to a minimum

There is only one program that is completely bug free, well documented, reliable and perfectly commented. Let me quote it in full: “”. Now, some naysayers may claim this isn’t a valid program – yet this program has won a programming contest!