First Year Experience Resources

We want you to be successful, and to do so, you should use the resources below. 

People

  • Professors – Professors have office hours, so this is a great way to get clarification about lecture content.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistants – Our GTAs run the labs, so if you have questions about labs or assignments, reach out to them.
  • Tutoring Center – Located on the second floor of the Atrium Building (J), the tutoring center is available for online appointments or walk-ins.
  • Advising Center – Located across the hall from the Tutoring Center.

Books

Books for CSE 1300

This course utilizes OER (Open Educational Resources). We provide all course materials to you free of charge. 

Books for CSE 1321

Note!  In the Reading Schedule below, you will see a "generic" reading for all students followed by language-specific readings.  The page numbers in the reading schedule are exclusively for the Programming Fundamentals book.  The remaining three books are optional resources.

List of books:

Books for CSE 1322

Lecture Slides & Videos

Old Exams

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

You can use whatever development environment you like, but we officially only support IntelliJ, Visual Studio, and XCode.  Note, during your face-to-face lab final exam, you will be required to use one of these environments.  Windows users will likely want the 64-bit version when they install. 

Although you can use whatever IDE you'd like at home, below are the IDEs that we recommend for the different languages and that we used in our labs:

1) Repl.it
    - Web-based and doesn’t require installation
    - Good for quick coding
    - May be used for lab final, so you must be familiar with it
2 ) C# 
     - Visual Studio for macOS or Windows
3) C++
    - Xcode for macOS
    - Visual Studio for Windows
4) Java
    - IntelliJ
    - CSE 1322L students must also install UML and JavaFX plugins

*Note #1: If you're on a Mac, you may try running XCode at home (which should be free in the AppStore).

In summary:

Practice

Videos

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