links-and-resources

A collection of resources during our studying years in NUS SoC Which does not only contain the modules we took, but everything we've came across while struggling through the course :)

Index

Largely organised by CS Focus Areas

• General Resources, or things to make your NUS life easier
• Learning to Program, which includes resources for foundation programming modules (i.e. CS1010, CS1020...)
• Algorithms and Theory
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Networks
• Computer Security
• Database Systems
• Interactive Media
• Information Retrieval
• Parallel Computing
• Programming Languages
• Software Engineering
• Mobile Development
• Web Development
• Technical Interviews and other tips
• Physics and Mathematics, because we all have to take them in our degree requirements
• Information Systems Modules
• Other NUS Modules: GEM/ SS modules
• Others: Free Academic Resources, cool coding-related links, and some troubleshoots
• Building the list

General Resources

• Collection of Cheatsheets!!!
• CS Programme Requirements
• NUS SoC Focus Areas
• SoC Course Catalogue
• NUSMods for Timetable Planning
• Collation of NUS related links
• NUS Computing Slack
• Introduction to Sunfire
• Basic Vim commands & Switch to Vim for Good
• Basic UNIX commands
• Resources for Freshman by Mr. Aaron Tan
• ReadPeer IVLE for reading and organising IVLE notes
• Foundation Of Computer Science(Online Textbook)

Learning to Program

Learning the Command Line

• Bash Handbook on Github
• Vogella Github handbook
• Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous
• MS Dos Basics
• Powershell Basics: It would be a plus if you know C# prior!

Learning C

• CS1010 Programming Methodology
  • Website for AY2015/2016
  • Jin Zhe's condensed notes
• Learning C in Chinese
  • Course from Peking University

Learning C++

• CS1020E
  • Learning C++ in Chinese
    • Course from Peking University
  • Learning C++ in English
    • Course from UC Santa Cruz
  • Self-learning C++ website
    • learncpp
  • C/C++ References
    • cppreference
  • CS1020E Unofficial Resources
    • Tay Yang Shun's site for CS1020E Unofficial Resources
    • Acer's site for CS1020E Unofficial Resources
• CS3241 Computer Graphics (Using OpenGL with C++)
  • Getting the OpenGL library
    • Get OpenGL
  • Self-learning Resources
    • An intro to modern OpenGL
    • MIT course materials
    • Stanford course materials
    • Basic code examples
    • OpenGL bascis guide
    • NeHe Computer Graphics Tutorial
    • Learn OpenGL
    • Links Every Programmer Should Know
    • Computer Graphics Principles and Practices
    • Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics

Learning "C#"

• Learning C# in English
  • Course from University of Colorado
  • Course from Microsoft Experts
  • Quick guide

Learning Python

• Learning Python in English
  • Course from MIT
  • Course from University of Texas
  • Course from University of Michigan
• Python References
  • Official Documents

Learning Matlab

• Introduction to Matlab, MIT OpenCourseWare 2010
• Introduction to Matlab for Engineering Students

Learning Java And Algorithms

• CS1020 & CS2010 Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Website for AY 2013/14
  • Online Java IDE
  • Jin Zhe's condensed notes for CS1020
  • CS1020 UML conventions
• Learning Java in Chinese
  • Course from Peking University
• Learning more about algorithms
  • Visualgo.Net
  • Algorithms from Princeton
  • Sam's CS1020 Lab Solutions

Learning other basics for Programme Requirements

• CS2100 Computer Organisation

  • AY2014/2015 Website by Aaron Tan
  • CS2100 Final Cheatsheet
  • CS2100 Midterm Cheatsheet

• CS2106 Introduction to Operating Systems

  • 2011 Course Page by Prof Ooi Wei Tsang
  • Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Algorithms and Theory

• CS2040 Data Structures and Algorithms
  • CS2040 Summary Notes
• CS3230 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • The 2010 Version
  • MIT Introduction to Algorithms Book. Also the textbook used in CS3230.
  • MIT Similar Course
  • Davin's Cheat Sheet for Midterm
  • Big O Notation Explanation Article
  • MIT Big O Notation Lecture Notes
  • A Beginner's Guide to Big O Notation
  • Big O Notation Cheat Sheet
  • A very complete Algorithms Cheat Sheet by algorhythm
  • Big O Complexity Cheat Sheet
• CS3233 Competitive Programming
  • World of Steven
  • Competitive Programming Ver 1
  • Competitive Programming Facebook Page
  • UVa Online Judge
  • Felix Halim's uHunt
  • HackerRank
  • CodeForces
  • A Quora list of resources
  • UVa Online Judge solutions to some problems
• CS4232 Theory of Computation
  • 1516 Semester 1 Module Website by Frank Stephan
  • Shai Simonson's course playlist

Artificial Intelligence

• CS3243 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  • Textbook used: Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach
  • AIMA Code
  • Multi-Agent Planning, Learning, and Coordination Group by the lecturer Bryan Low
  • University Of California Irvine Equivalent Course
• CS3244 Machine Learning
  • Textbook used: Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell
  • Stanford Machine Learning Note
  • Stanford Machine Learning Course by Andrew Ng
  • Weka Machine Learning And Data Mining Tool
  • Weka Tutorial
  • University Of California Irvine Equivalent Course
  • Machine Learning Cheat Sheet by soulmachine
• CS4246 AI Planning and Uncertainity
  • Textbook used: Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach
  • Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
  • Bayesian Modelling in Python
  • The Essentials of Machine Learning
  • Machine Learning MIT OpenCourseware
  • A library for Gaussian Optimization implemented in python, GPyOpt
• CS5228 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • The 2014 page
  • Recommender Systems and Social Web 2014
  • Kaggle Competition
  • Data Science iPython Notebooks
  • Mining of massive datasets(Second Edition). Leskovec, Jure, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeffrey David Ullman. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  • How Do I become a Data Scientist on Quora
  • 60 Free Data Science Books
• CS5340 Uncertainity Modelling in AI
  • The 2015/2016 Course page by Dr Cheng Li
• CS5246 Text Processing on the Web
  • The 2008/2009 Course page by Dr Min
• CS6101 Deep Learning for Vision
  • The 2017 Course page by Dr Min
  • Stanford Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
  • Tensorflow Models Zoo
  • Consice Tensorflow Examples

Computer Networks

• CS2105 Introduction to Computer Networks
  • Course Website by Ooi Wei Tsang
  • Prof Ooi's Github instructional materials for the blog
• CS3103 Computer Networks & Protocols
  • Lecture notes
• CS4274 Mobile & Multimedia Networking
  • Lecture notes
  • Textbook: Computer Networking A Top Down Approach
  • Textbook: Computer Networking A Top Down Approach PDF
• CS4344 Networked and Mobile Games
  • Official home page
  • Yang Shun's model answers to assignments (full marks for all)

Computer Security

• CS2107 Introduction to Security
  • Hugh Anderson's slides 2015
• CS3235 Computer Security
  • Hugh Anderson's Lectures 2015
  • Previous Project Papers
• CS5231 System Security
  • Last Year's Webpage

Database Systems

• CS2102 Database Systems
  • Great online course on SQL
  • Related course from Stanford
  • Francis Pang's CS2102 Student Guide

Interactive Media

• CS3247 Game Development
  • Curated List of Game Development Links
  • Unity 3D
  • Unreal Engine
  • Unreal Engine Ray Wenderlich Tutorial
  • Unreal Engine Reddit Thread
  • A long list of Game Development Tutorials for Beginners
  • Free videos on GDC Vault
  • PixelProspector.com - The Indie Goldmine
• CS3249 User Interface Development
  • Module Website
  • Qt Download Site
  • Official Qt Documentation
• CS4243 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications by Szeliski
  • OpenCV
  • OpenCVSharp, a C# Wrapper for OpenCV
  • EE4212 Computer Vision
  • CS4243 Lab Answers
  • Sample Project source code
• CS4347 Sound and Music Computing
  • NUS SMC Lab
• CS4350 Game Development Project
  • Resources for Unreal Engine
  • Resources for Maya Beginners
  • Maya - Modeling, particle, lightning, rendering of various levels with samples
  • Maya - Box modelling a human head:(Just for reference. To show that everything can be modeled from a box. Nowadays we no longer do such complicated model in Maya)
• CS5240 Theoretical Foundations in Multimedia Computing
  • AY2015/16 Website by Prof Leow Wee Kheng
• CS5233 Simulation and Modelling Techniques
  • AY2015/16 Website by A/P Gary Tan

Information Retrieval

• CS2108 Introduction to Media Computing
  • Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) Interactive Guide
  • [Image Dittering Demo] (http://www.unitzeroone.com/examples/ImageDithering/index.html)
  • [Open Source JS Image Effects and Filters] (http://joelb.me/jsmanipulate/)
• CS3245 Introduction to Information Retrieval
  • Course Webpage 2015
  • Stanford Natural Language Processing Group
  • Stanford Textbook
  • NLTK Python
  • University Of California Irvine Equivalent Course
• CS3246 Multimedia Content Analysis and Search
• CS4242 Social Media Computing
• CS4248 Natural Language Processing
  • Columbia University Topics in Speech Processing: Computational Approaches to Emotional Speech by Julia Hirschberg
  • Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
  • Github repositiory for Deep Learning for NLP

Parallel Computing

• CS3210 Parallel Computing
  • Textbook: Parallel Programming for Multicore and Cluster Systems
  • Cuda C++ guide
  • Textbook: Introduction to Parallel Computing, Second Edition

Programming Languages

• CS2104 Programming Languages Concepts
  • 2012 Problem Sets
  • 2007 Webpage

Software Engineering

• CS2103/T: Software Engineering
  • Module Website
  • Clean Code
  • Java Coding Conventions
  • C++ Coding Conventions by Google
  • Design Patterns Explained
  • Begineer's Guide to Design Patterns
  • The Mythical Man-Month. Essays on Software Engineering
• CS3216 Software Development for Digital Markets
  • Official Home Page
  • On CS3216/CS3217 and Elitism
  • CS3216 Post Mortem
• CS3217 Software Engineering on Modern Application Platforms
  • Facebook Page

Mobile Development

Android Development

• Android Developers Getting Started
• Google Material Design Principles
• Collated List of Android Resources
• Awesome Android
• CodePath's Guide to Android

iOS Development

• Objective-C online video course by Stanford University
• Swift online video course by Stanford University - SAME PROFESSOR!
• Simple-to-use web-based prototyping application using images for iPhone - 30 days free trial
• NSHipster is a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa. Updated weekly.
• One-stop website for tutorials for specific functionalities

Windows 10 Development

• What you need for Windows 10

Web Development

• CS3226 Web Programming and Applications
  • 2016 Course Webpage
• Learning about web applications
  • Course from The University of New Mexico

Backend Languages and Frameworks

Learning PHP

• Some tutorials
  • Interactive PHP
• PHP References
  • Official References

Learning Ruby on Rails

• Getting started
• Top Rails Resources
• Codecademy's Ruby course
• Codecademy's Learn RoR course
• Codecademy's RoR Authentication course
• M Hartl's Rails Tutorial everyone loves
• One Month Rails

Frontend Languages and Frameworks

• List of Front End Feeds
• Front End Development Bookmarks
• 2017 Angular vs React vs Vue

Learning AngularJS and Angular 2

• Getting started on AngularJS
• Getting started on Angular 2
• 'Differences between AngularJS and Angular 2' on Quora
• AngularJS tutorial by Tutorialspot
• Free basic course from Codeschool
• Codecademy's Learn AngularJS course
• Thinkster: A Better Way to Learn AngularJS
• AngularJS cheatsheet
• Amazing github repo for blog posts, articles, videos, etc for learning AngularJS
• AngularJS YouTube channel
• More links

Learning React

• Get Started with Create-React-App
• Official React Tutorial

Technical Interviews

Relevant Resources

• System Design Interview
• LeetCode
• CareerCup
• GeeksforGeeks
• Also see competitive programming platforms under CS3233 Competitive Programming
• Jin Zhe's practices in Java (if it's of any help)
  • Algorithms
  • Data-structures
• What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?
• How would you implement Google Search?
• Job Puzzles
• Github Awesome Interviews
• Technical Interviews Study Resources
• Top Coder revision
• Hacker Rank Cracking the Coding Interview Practices
• Algorithms tutorials by Top Coder's Data Science Community
• Lots of Cheatsheets from LifeHacker
• Yang Shun's Interview Handbook
• Programming Interviews Exposed

Google

• From a Googler: the Google interview process (MUST READ)
• Long but worthwhile read by beloved Steve Yegge
• "Hacking a Google Interview" by MIT
• APAC Google interview experience/process by Emanuel Saringan
• Learn Data Structures from a Google Engineer

Facebook

• Get that job at Facebook
• Preparing for a technical interview with programming contests

Palantir

• How to Ace an Algorithms Interview
• The Coding Interview

Physics and Maths

• CS1231 Discrete Structures

  • Extra Resources for its first chapter. It is useful for CS2102 also!
  • AY2015/16 Course Website taught by Aaron Tan and Terence Sim

• LSM1301 General Biology

  • Lecture Notes

• MA1505 Mathematics I

  • Darren Wee notes on Github

• MA1506 Mathematics II

  • Darren Wee notes on Github

• MA1521 Calculus for Computing

  • Extra Resources (in Chinese)
  • Final Exam Helpsheet, NWS's Syllabus
  • Final Exam Cheatsheet

• MA1101R Linear Algebra I

  • Textbook: Linear Algebra: Concepts and Techniques on Euclidean Spaces by Ng Kah Loon. Can only buy at NUS Co-Op
  • A textbook from UBC that serves its purpose
  • Stanford CS229 Linear Algebra Review
  • Final Exam Cheatsheet
  • Lab Quiz Cheatsheet

• MA2213 Numerical Analysis

  • Numerical Methods in Matlab
  • Introduction to Numerical Analysis, MIT OpenCourseWare Spring 2012

• MA2214 Combinatorics and Graphs I

  • Textbook (PDF Version)

• ST2334 Probability and Statistics

  • One whole long pdf of notes
  • WZChen Probability Cheatsheet

• ST2132 Mathematical Statistics

  • Textbook: Mathematical Analysis and Statistics by John Rice

• ST2137 Computer Aided Data Analysis

  • AY2013/2014 Course Webpage

• ST4234 Bayesian Statistics

  • Alex Cook blog on the module

• PC1221 Fundamentals of Physics I

  • College Physics by Serway

• PC1222 Fundamental of Physics II

  • Course Webpage by Prof Ke-Qin Zhang

• General Mathematics Stuff

  • Springer List of Free Maths PDF

Information Systems Modules

• IS1105 Strategic IT Applications
  • [Jin Zhe's condensed notes](resources/IS1105/IS1105 NOTES.docx)
• IS2102 Requirements Analysis and Design
  • Lecture Notes & Tutorials
• IS2103 Enterprise Systems Development Concepts
  • Lecture Notes

Other NUS Modules

General Education modules

• GEK1505 Living With Mathematics (It is similar to CS1231)

• GEK1508 Einstein's Universe & Quantum Weirdness

  • Jin Zhe's notes

• GEK1509 Introduction To The Nanoworld

  • Jin Zhe's notes

• GEK1520/ PC1322 Understanding the Universe

  • A Dropbox Resource

• GEM1537 Nanotechnology For Everyone - From Smart Phone, Innovation to Entrepreneurship - Shaping the Future

• GEM2900 Understanding Uncertainty and Statistics

• GEM2901 Reporting Statistics in the Media

  • A Dropbox Resource

• GEK1527 (or LSM1302) Genes and Society

  • A Dropbox Resource

• GEK1521 Physics In the Life Sciences

  • Course from Harveford College
  • Course from McGill

• GET1028 Logic

  • GET1028 Final Cheatsheet

Singapore Studies modules

• SSA2204 Nation Building in Singapore

Others

Other Modules, IDEs, Resources, Cool Stuff, ...

Other Modules

• PH1102E Introduction to Philosophy
• Jin Zhe's summarized notes
• Abraham Kang's notes
• CS2101 Effective Communication for Computing Professionals
• Reflections Blog by Ms Isabel Chew

Integrated Online IDEs

• Cloud9
• Nitrous Pro
• Visual Studio Online
• List of Online IDEs

Great Tools for Drawing Diagrams

• Visual Studio
• Draw.io
• Microsoft Visio

Great IDEs

• JetBrains Can get Professional Editions for free with an NUS account
• VIM
• Sublime Text
• Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio 2015
• Tutorials Point Online IDEs

Free Academic Resources

• MIT Open Courseware
• Stanford Online
• Coursera
• Programming Books Sandbox
• 550+ Free Online Programming & Computer Science Courses You Can Start This October

Top Self-learning Resources

• Codecademy
• Codeschool
• Exercism
• Tutorial Spot
• PluralSight (free 90-day trial for students)
• Thinkster
• Code Avengers
• Treehouse
• Udacity
• FreeCodeCamp
• Khan Academy
• Awesome Courses
• Cool Youtube Channels for Learning Programming

Cool Stuff

• Awesome Collated List by Sindresorhus
• Rosetta Code presents algorithms in as many different languages as possible
• Online IDE and Terminal for almost all languages!
• 40 key computer science terms explained in ways your boss can understand
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Notes to NUS Freshmen from the Future, written by some Seniors
• Slack off From Your Job Today and spend some time giggling
• Collection of articles, videos, and resources made by designers at Facebook

Troubleshoot

• How to properly update Java (Windows)

Miscellaneous

• Jin Zhe's programming cheatsheets
• Learning Office 365 APIs in English
  • Course from Microsoft Experts
• CMU Grad School Talk

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