Academic advice is always available at Illinois Tech’s Academic Resource Center.
Explore resources for current students here, as well as find out more about scholarships or about the College of Computing’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) programs, which grant undergraduates an opportunity to spend 6-8 weeks with a research team.
Elevate Experience
Illinois Tech’s Elevate initiative is a one-of-a-kind program that combines a world-class education with access to experiences and a customized plan that set you on the pathway to an amazing career. By taking part in hands-on experiences like research projects, internships, study away, competitions, and short courses, you’ll gain the twenty-first century skills essential for professional success.
Learn more about Elevate and how your team of career, academic, and alumni advisers can help you create your personalized Elevate Your Future plan for academic and career success.
Student Organizations
Illinois Tech is home to many chapters of national computer science–related student organizations including:
Useful Links
- Prerequisites of CS courses
- Postrequisites of CS courses
- Transferring courses for MCS and MSCS
- Faculty office hours
- TA Office Hours
- Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Study Guide
CS Calendars
Software Suggestions
The following programs and sites were compiled from suggestions by Illinois Tech students. If you would like to make more suggestions, please forward them to Michael Saelee.
Software Websites
- FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory
- The GNU Project
- Open Source Alternative
- OSSwin: Open Source for Windows
- Microsoft Dreamspark (Registered students and faculty only)
Software Categories
ANTIVIRUS
- Avast! Free Antivirus
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
- Avira Free Antivirus
- ClamAV
- McAFee: Illinois Tech Portal → Training and Support
- Norton Free Edition
COMPILERS/DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS
- codeblocks
- dev-c++
- Eclipse
- gcc
- GDB
- g++
- intellJ Idea
- JetBrains
- KDevelop
- Leiningen for Clojure
- Lighttable for Clojure
- MonoDevelop
- SharpDevelop
DATA COMPRESSION
EMAIL CLIENTS
GRAPHICS DESIGN
INSTANT MESSAGING
MULTIMEDIA
OFFICE SOFTWARE
OPERATING SYSTEMS
TEXT EDITORS
VERSION CONTROL (GIT)
VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE
WEB BROWSERS
- Firefox
- Firefox - Developer Edition
- Google Chrome
- Google Chrome Canary [for developers
- Opera
- SeaMonkey
- Vivaldi