CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD
Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science


Free Downloads and MSDN Software

Microsoft Academic Alliance (MSDN)

The Cal State Bakersfield Computer Science department has a subscription to the Microsoft Developers Network Academic Alliance program. This entitles our students free access to certain Microsoft products. Over the years, the Microsoft program has had various names -- its newest name is "Azure Dev Tools for Teaching."

To download a Microsoft CD, you must log on to the Dev Tools For Teaching website. Follow that link, and you will be prompted to log on using your Microsoft account. If you don't have one, you will have the opportunity to create one. Once you have logged on, go to your account page and click on "Manage your account." There is an option to add an additional email account. Click on that and add your odin email address: username@cs.csubak.edu -- Your Microsoft account should now recognize you as eligible for the program. Your logon ID will be your email address, and because this privilege is limited to CompSci students, it will only work for email addresses in the cs.csubak.edu domain.

Once you log on, you may select one of the titles that are represented by the icons on the page, or you may choose from the drop down list. Some products are set up for you to download over the internet and some you can purchase for the cost of media from Microsoft. In all cases, the required serial number will be sent to you via email from MSDNAA.

The preferred method of obtaining software is by downloading. If you are downloading using Firefox (recommended) you should be aware that the file you download from the MSDNAA site should be renamed to have an .exe ending to make it executable. That program is the actual downloader that will download your requested program. In most cases you will end up with an ISO image in your temporary directory. You will need a CD burning program that can handle ISO images. I strongly recommend ImgBurn. ImgBurn is freeware and works very well.

Also note that some products require multiple CDs. You must select each CD for checkout when you reserve the product.

VMware Academic Program

We have a similar program for VMware products. You must send Steve an email from your odin account requesting an account. The easiest way is to type "steve" into the "to" field in alpine and request a VMware account. You will end up with an email from VMware's site with links for you to create an account there.

Site License for Mathematica

CSUB has a site license for Mathematica from Wolfram. Details on how to get your copy.

Site License for MATLAB

CSUB has a site license for MATLAB from Mathworks. Details on how to get your copy.

C++ compilers

Telnet and SSH Clients

  • PuTTY: a small, free telnet and ssh client.
  • Install Cygwin below and add the ssh client
  • Install the Linux for Windows subsystem in Windows 10 (below) and install openssh.

X11 Clients

Miscellaneous

  • Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.
  • Seamonkey: The orignal Mozilla open source browser suite
  • cdrte An excellent cd burning application for Windows
  • Firefox: open source web browser
  • WinSCP: open source scp client (also supports secure ftp)
  • Notepad++:An Open Source Text Editor with Syntax Highlighting, Syntax Folding for Windows. Supported languages: C, C++, Java, C#, XML, HTML, PHP, Javascript, RC resource file, makefile, ASCII art file, doxygen, ini file, batch file, ASP, VB/VBS, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl, Python, Lua, TCL, Assembler, Ruby, Lisp, Scheme, Properties, Diff, Smalltalk, Postscript and VHDL.
  • Linux Mint Linux Mint is an offshoot of Ubuntu Linux. It is the Linux distribution we use in the labs
  • Ubuntu ISO image: Ubuntu is a distro of Linux geared towards being user friendly. This verison runs entirely from the CD like KNOPPIX, but you have the option to install it to the disk if you choose.
  • How to Install Linux for Windows on Windows 10