If you think you need a windows crutch, run a VM. Dual-booting is more work than it's worth and leaves you with too much work going back and forth and trying to share files with the wanna-be OS. I managed to pull off an MBA (you know, the place where the non-geeks all say you must use crappy software that only works in certain environments) running openSUSE (two versions over two years) without doing anything crazy or running a VM thanks to OpenOffice/LibreOffice and, for a stats class, Gnumeric (regression built in there), all which came with the distro. Current job... same way. If you want to then you can do it, and I'd expect CS folks to have an easier time of it than others (I took C++ CS classes many years ago.... I did those in Linux too thankfully).
AB On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Brad Mugleston <[email protected]>wrote: > Oliver, it's been a few years but lets see... > > After graduating in the top 75% of my high school class was lucky & found > a girl that taught me how to study. > > 1- do read the material for the day BEFORE the class starts > 2- take good notes & ask clarification questions, after all class is your > second time though the material. > 3- transcribe your notes into readable thoughts before you do any then > else that night > 4- do #1 > 5- do all homework > 6- time left in the day? PARTY it is college. > > Oh try to avoid sitting around in the computer lab waiting for your punch > cards to process. Yea I got my first calculator my senior year. +-/X was > all it did. I have sent 5 of my own freshman off to college, those that > followed my advice had almost 4.00gpa. I'd like to think it worked for > them too. > > One other thing, find a way to not take a class with more than 30-40 > students in it. Intro Geology for geology majors is more fun & interesting > than for gen Ed and the tests are just as easy. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 5, 2013, at 7:12 PM, Oliver Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm an incoming freshman, and I was wondering if any of the more > experienced BYU students have tips or suggestions to help me (and any other > freshman that happen to be subscribed) succeed. Study habits we should > start, time management techniques we should practice, and activities we > should attend could be helpful as well as any other information you can > think of that you wish you had known on entrance. > > > > Particularly, I'm interested in the CS program. What tips and tricks do > you have for a Linux user going to school? Specifically, for CS 142, do I > need some way to run Windows or Windows software? > > > > Thank you for any time and effort you put in to answering my questions. > I'm extremely excited to experience college life, and I want my first > semesters to be the best possible experience. > > > > -Oliver Reed > > -------------------- > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info (unsubscribe here): > http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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