Links & Useful Stuff

Sacramento State

Great for Students

  • Stingers Up!CSUS Campus Calendar
    Universities are full of activity - from guest speakers to sports events. The following website keeps track of all the events coming up on campus.
  • Tabletop Activities & Gaming at Sacramento State University
    TAG is a campus club that is dedicated to tabletop games - from trading card to role playing games and everything in between.
  • Sac State ACM
    The Association of Computing Machinery is an organization dedicated to computer science. If you want to meet other computer scientists, work on fun activities outside of class, and want to enrich your education, then you should join.
  • Associated Students, Inc.
    ASI is the student government of Sacramento State. They fund and manage a number of programs on campus such as the Children's Center, Safe Rides, and DOC/SEL (which helps clubs and students fund events and projects).
  • State Hornet
    Sacramento State's online newspaper.

University Services

Computer Science / Engineer Majors

Great Free Software

  • Notepad++
    As computer scientists and engineers, we often create documents in plain text. Whether it is Java code, assembly, or Verilog, we need a good text editor. Notepad++ is one of the best text editors available and supports features for programmers.
  • Mozilla Firefox
    This is an exceptional web browser created by the Mozilla Foundation (the same creators of Tor).
  • Inkscape
    This application allows you to create SVG (vector) graphics. You can export them to EMF and use them in Office applications. It is like a " Adobe Illustrator, but free.

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Entertainment