CS 312 (W'07, T Th sections)

So you can get access to a bunch of C# and .net programming reference books for free. And that's a good thing.

If you are accessing from off-campus then you will have to type in your RouteY information to get access.

Here's a note from John Christensen at the library that gives more details about this and other collections available online:
"I am covering Computer Science this year for the library while we try to hire a new librarian over that area since our last one left. I teach classes about library use which include computer science students and I asked some of them today how to get the word out about a computer science resource the library has. They suggested that I contact the faculty and ask you to get the information out through announcements in classes as well as an announcement on the CS webpage. The resource I am referring to is the Safari collection of computer science books that the library subscribes to. You may or may not be familiar with the Safari collection. You can view it at: http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/?uicode=byuprovo We have a partial subscription to Safari. Our subscription includes all the O’Reilly books in the collection. They represent about 1/5 of the collection and we are doing this as a trial. I have been told by the library automations people over here that O’Reilly is probably the premier publisher and there are a number of our automations people that have had personal subscriptions to Safari before the library started their subscription.

The CS students I talked to all said that if they had known about Safari they would have used it a lot and will now be trying it out. As you can see from the webpage from Safari, it is the full text of the books and they are indexed so you can search for answers to questions within the books and then go right to the material to answer those questions. Could you let students know about Safari in your classes? I have sent a similar email to your CS Webmaster also asking for his help in spreading the word. Students can get to it on the BYU library webpage by going to “Search by Discipline,” then “Physical and Mathematical Sciences,” then “Computer Science.” On our Computer Science page it is the last item at the bottom of the page. It is available off-campus. If you are off-campus and connect you will get a page asking for your Y-Net information and when you input that information you will be allowed into Safari just as though you were on campus."