Master of Software Engineering - Resources for Current Students
Room R105 in the
Ian Ross Building,
which is reserved for Masters-by-coursework students, is fitted out with desks and desk-top machines
for the exclusive use of that community of students. Allocation of each the spots is on the basis
of first-come-first-served and lasts only as long as the current student is actually using it.
The university also has a scheme, called
Info Commons,
for supplying computing power to ALL students. You would typically access Info Commons
machines from the libraries..
Some courses expect participating students to use particular software that is running on
machines in the undergraduate student labs in the
CSIT Building. In
this case you will have ready access to these labs also.
Since many of you will have a laptop, it is worth knowing that there is fledgling
wireless connectivity for students in the CSIT and Ian Ross Buildings
and also in the ANU libraries. (More details needed here later on.)
Masters-by-coursework students, when seeking a place to get some work
or study accomplished, have several options on campus:
Use the masters-by-coursework room, R105, in the Ian Ross Building;
One of the functions of the library building is to provide quiet study places;
There are places like
the Union, the
Purple Pickle in the
Sports Centre (just across the road) and
The Gods Cafe where you can
read and/or write while grabbing a coffee.
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Accessing Computing Literature: |
The
library
subscribes to many computing journals and the Hancock Library is
the place to go to browse those that come in hard copy form. Although the
monograph collection in computing is quite weak, the Safari subscription (see below)
makes that less of a problem.
As an ANU student you get to easily access the large collection
of on-line journals to which the library subscribes.
Of particular note is the
ACM Digital Library
and a huge swag of
IEEE publications. Follow
the link
http://anulib.anu.edu.au/ejournals/ to explore
the possibilities.
ANU staff and students now have access to over 230 titles via
Safari Tech Books Online.
This service provides online access to titles from several IT
publishers, including O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Peachpit
Press, Prentice Hall and SAMS.
The
Safari collection is browsable, searchable, and may be printed one page at a time.
Users may also search across the full text of the collection for solutions or areas
of interest
Access Safari at:
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?uicode=austntlu
If you have questions about a particular course that you are enrolled in,
your lecturer will usually be the person with the most authoritative
answers. If you can't locate him then you shouldn't overlook the
possibility that other students in the same class might be able to help.
After all, the MSE students all have professional experience.
If you are simply contemplating taking one of our COMP8000 courses and
want more details then
first read the long description of the course and then check out the
course webpage. Links to these items are to be found at
http://feit.anu.edu.au/MSE_Courses.php.
Questions of an administrative nature - enrolment, dates, etc. - should go to the MSE convenor
(currently
Dr. Chris Johnson)
or
Jill Mayo,
the very helpful student advisor in FEIT Office (Ian Ross Building).
