Remote Access
If you want to connect to the CS machines from your dorm room or home, you will need the ssh and/or sftp program on your system. Those utility programs are considered secure because their communications are encrypted.
On Writing
Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, bartelby.com, 1918
Sword, Stylish Academic Writing, Harvard University Press, 2012
On Learning to Program
Friedman, Felleisen; The Little Schemer: Fourth Edition MIT Press, 1996
Friedman, Felleisen; The Seasoned Schemer MIT Press, 1996
Felleisen, Friedman; A Little Java, A Few Patterns MIT Press, 1998
On Racket and Scheme
If you wish to learn to use Racket or Scheme as a tool, which is not the goal of this course, then take a look at the following: