Computer Labs

Location and Hours

CS-200 and CS-202
Open Monday to Thursday from 10AM to 7PM
Open Friday from 10AM to 5PM

Additionally, three Student Genius Center computer labs located on the 1st, 2nd and 4th floors of the Pollak Library. This lab contains computers running the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. For more information about the Information & Learning Commons computer labs, drop by or call the Student Genius Center at (657) 278-8203.

Computer Account

A (Linux) shell server is available through secure shell (ssh) and secure file transfer protocol (sftp). The hostname is ecs.fullerton.edu. If your email address is "taylor@csu.fullerton.edu" then your username is "taylor". If you are using a command-line ssh client, then your command to connect to ecs.fullerton.edu will be "ssh taylor@ecs.fullerton.edu". Your password is the same password as your CSUF Portal password.

*Faculty members can login in as well if you specify your Active Directory domain. For example, if your email address is "kai@fullerton.edu", then your username is "AD\kai" and the command will be "ssh 'AD\kai@ecs.fullerton.edu".

Software

The CS Department maintains licenses for the following software for class usage through the Academic Alliance Program:

Requesting Azure Development Tools

Students interested in using Microsoft® development tools may request Azure development tools at https://azureforeducation.microsoft.com/devtools/.

Students may download full featured versions of Microsoft Visual Studio for free.

Additionally, students may enroll themselves in the following: IBM Academic Initiative & Oracle Academy

Tuffix: Tuffy the Titan's Linux Distribution

Students enrolled in CSPC 120, CPSC 121, and CPSC 131 are recommended to use the Computer Science Department’s official GNU/Linux development environment, Tuffix. Tuffix is Tuffy the Titan’s Linux distribution.

Instructions on how to install Tuffix or a Tuffix based VM are online at tuffixinstall. The Tuffix Titanium Community for Students, is the best venue to receive help with Tuffix.

Students may self-enroll in the community; first login to your portal, then navigate to Titanium communities, next under the dashboard to the left–click Site home, then click Search Courses on the right, search for ‘Tuffix’, in the results click Tuffix Students, under the gear in the upper right select Enrol me in this course, finally click on the button Enrol me. You may unenroll at any time.

The Tuffix home page is https://github.com/kevinwortman/tuffix. Instructors are encouraged to join the Tuffix Titanium Community for Instructors. Please contact Kevin Wortman for access.

Apple Xcode

Students interested in using Apple® development tools can freely download Xcode through the App Store application bundled with macOS. Students may download Xcode directly from https://developer.apple.com/xcode/.