Macintosh Lab

The departmental Macintosh laboratory is used for introductory courses in Computer Science and Mathematics. Currently the lab is stocked with the following equipment:


Professor Sipka works with students in the Macintosh lab during the weekly laboratory session for CSC 120: Introduction to Computer Science.

  • Sixteen Macintosh IMac's, with Intel 2.16 GHz Dual-core Processor 1.2ghz G4's and a 20" Monitor, running OS 10.4.10, Apple's Unix-based Operating System

  • ASK Proxima Computer Projector and a Smartboard

  • HP Laser Printer

The lab is fully networked and the machines are loaded with a number of software packages, including

  • Eclipse IDE (for Java programming)

  • Metrowerks Codewarrior (with C, C++ and Java)

  • Maple (for symbolic computation)

  • Jmp-in (for statistics)

  • Firefox, Microsoft Explorer and Netscape Communicator (for accessing the Web)

and a number of wordprocessor, spreadsheet, and other application software packages.

 

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Student Profile

Alex Hegedus

Alex Hegedus
Graduation: 2014
Major: Computer Science and Mathematics

Want to be a world traveler? A mathematic researcher? An Ultimate Frisbee player? A fraternity brother? At Alma College, Jackson junior Alex Hegedus doesn’t have to choose among his interests.

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