Software
Overview
The extern software described here has proved useful to me and my students. All of the software is freely-available and most of the products are portable—i.e. they work under most major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, MacOS and various flavours of Unix.
Windows
- cygwin:
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Since the software packages recommended here are supposed to be “operating system independent”, why this section of Windows-only software?
Simple! The cygwin package provides a Unix-like environment to be run under Microsoft Windows.
Portable
Basics
- Java SDK:
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Much portable software is
Download from java.sun.com
- Editors:
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We all need an editor.
- jedit:
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Download from www.jedit.org
- Tools: