Class software

Required Proprietary Software

This is a list of proprietary software required for classes.

Course	Proprietary Software	VM	WINE	Native Linux Version	Equivalent FOSS	Notes
Multiple	DyKnow	yes	Garbage	no	Ubiquitous Presenter (Free for academic use), completely free version a work in progress	Get through installation by deleting the dependency entries.
ENGE 1024 Engineering Exploration ENGE 1104 Exploration of Digital Future	LabVIEW
Multiple	MATLAB	yes	Gold	yes	QtOctave, FreeMat (stale?), Octave (console), Scilab (not syntax-compatible), Sage	Parallelize number crunching using the CVL. ENGE 1104 requires functions not in Octave/FreeMat.
Multiple	MS Visual C++ (Express)	yes	Garbage	no	GCC + GDB + Valgrind, KDevelop
BIT 2406 Quantitative Methods	Microsoft Excel 2007 (Solver)	yes	Gold	no	Gnumeric (OpenOffice.org Calc does not generate reports)	Absolute values ( such as "1" or "0") can not be used for constraints. Multiple cell ranges can not be manipulated at once, making Gnumeric unusable for transshipment problems and goal programming. Cell ranges can only be compared to ranges of equal length and width in constraints. Nonlinear programming is not yet possible. Reports are dated in UTC.
BIT 2406 Quantitative Methods	Microsoft Excel 2007 (Analysis Toolpack)	yes	Gold	no	Gnumeric
ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory	PSpice	yes	Silver	no	Qucs	You can probably replace the Tront PSpice book with the Qucs workbook.
ECE 2074 Electric Circuit Analysis Laboratory	Zeitnitz Soundcard Oscilloscope	?	Gold	no	xoscope
ECE 2504 Introduction to Computer Engineering	LogicWorks	yes	Gold	no	Qucs
ECE 2504 Introduction to Computer Engineering	MPLAB	yes	Gold	no	Piklab
ECE 2534 Microprocessor System Design	Xilinx tools (parts GPL'd)	sometimes quirky		yes		Use 9.x natively with libusb-driver.
ECE 3504 Digital Design I	WinCupl		Gold	no		Needs MFC40.dll: wget http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vc/mfc40.cab cabextract mfc40.cab wine mfc40.exe
ECE 4564 Network Application Design	MS Visual C# + .NET	yes	?	no	MonoDevelop + Mono
ECE 4560 Computer and Network Security Fundamentals	VMware products	?	?	yes	VirtualBox, QEMU, others
CEE 4024 (and others)	Microsoft Project	Yes	Bronze	No	GNOME Planner	Planner lacks resource levelling or constraints
Multiple (CEE and BC)	Autodesk Products	Buggy	Garbage	No		Success in Wine depends on the Autodesk product used and revisions of all software involved.
Multiple	Microsoft Visio	Yes	Gold	No	Dia	Lots of add-ons for circuit shapes and logic for flowcharts

Required Free/Open Source Software

This is a list of Free Software required for classes.

Course	Software	License	Package Name
ECE 2500 Computer Organization	SPIM	BSD	Gentoo: spim Ubuntu: spim
CS 1054 Introduction to Programming in Java	BlueJ	GPL	Arch Linux: bluej
CS 1114 Introduction to Software Design
CS 2114 Software Design & Data Structures	Eclipse	EPL	Arch Linux: eclipse
CS 2505 Intro to Computer Organization I	MARS	MIT	Arch Linux: mars-mips
CS 2506 Into to Computer Organization II
CS 2505 Intro to Computer Organization I	gcc	GPL	Arch Linux: gcc
CS 2506 Into to Computer Organization II
CS 3214 Computer Systems
CS 3214 Computer Systems	gdb	GPL	Arch Linux: gdb

Example LaTeX Chem Lab Report - An example lab report for CHEM 1045 written in LaTeX.

See Also

• Computer requirement
• Libre course software
• Proprietary course software