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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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Graduate Profile

Ted Hutchins
Graduation: 1990
Major: Computer Science
Minor: Religious Studies

Ted Hutchins has been interested in computers since middle school, but he says the liberal arts education at Alma College truly prepared him for life.

“At other institutions computer science students have little incentive or ability to further their education in non-science disciplines,” the 1990 graduate says. “Over the years numerous acquaintances have stated they only took those ‘other’ course to complete their degree. At Alma most of those ‘other’ classes were the highlight of the term. A well-rounded education furthered my career in ways that are hard to quantify.”

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