Kyle's Resources

These are various resources I've compiled into one helpful (for me) site. They are broad and mostly unorganized. Enjoy!

Academic Resources:

Expectations I have of students.
Advising resources for CSC majors.
My Recommendations FAQ should answer many of your questions about using me as a reference or getting a letter of recommendation.
LaTeX lecture notes package. It's designed around the Socratic Method and generates both Instructor and Student versions of the notes in case you want to distribute them without giving away all the answers to questions and exercises.
Induction Helpers: a few documents I made to help understand mathematical induction.

Programming Resources:

I wrote a terminal tutorial for Linux/Unix/Mac.
I made an FAQ to help get your computer to do things the department computers do.
Multi-language Web Tools:
- repl.it is an elegant web-interpreter for many languages.
- Compile Online can compile/interpret a bunch of common languages.
Chapel:
- Cray's Chapel Cheat Sheet (Quick Reference Sheet).
- David Bunde's tutorial.
- My tutorial for programmers.
LaTeX:
- deTeXify
- TeXmaker
- Sage Math Cloud
- I make my figures in LibreOffice. Unfortunately, the pdfs it creates have extra dots that are viewable in default Adobe settings. Here are instructions to remove the dots.
Java:
- Java 8 API
- Java 7 API
- My Python-to-Java tutorial. All you need is about a semester of Python.
JavaScript:
- w3school's Javascript reference
- w3schools home
- prototype.js
- I've used this tutorial for dynamically loading JS.
Python
- I use Allen Downey's book Think Python.
- I use pyenv to automate environments since Python has many versions.
R: I created a very basic R tutorial for those interested in trying it out. It assumes you have programming experience.
Pair Programming: here are some resources for pair programming.
Programming Games:
- Code Monkey, a fun game for learning Python-esque programming.
- Hello World Quiz: see if you can identify the programming language from the Hello, World! program.
- Code Combat, a dungeon-crawler adventure game that uses coding to control the main character!
- CodinGame, a coding game with multiple languages you can use to choose from!
- Elevator Saga, a sequence of JavaScript challenges that use elevator efficiency.
- Untrusted, a really difficult JavaScript game where you write code to solve 2-D puzzles.

Magic:TG Resources:

CardPriceMonkey: I have a discord chat bot connected to my database of Magic cards. You can chat with it to see what I have for trade and what I'm looking for!
AMTGRPG: I created a Magic:TG role-playing game. There are lots of homebrewed Magic RPGs out there. This one is different because:
- There are no character sheets, just the deck each player is using.
- Players build their decks from a limited, but random, card pool.
- The GM does not have a deck; enemies are similar to Planeswalkers.
- Encounters have a strategy board game feel (the role-playing factor is a bit low).
Emperor Drafts: Notes about Emperor Drafting after an awesome time with Battlebond. Includes link to a printable PDF with Zone drafting arrows and directions to set them up.
Chaos Draft: I created a Chaos Draft format that adds random effects to the drafting process.
Mediocre Magic: I seldom post to Mediocre Magic, my casual magicking blog.
Kingdom (EDH) Roles: A partial list of Kingdom EDH variants. Kingdom is inspired by the card game Bang! This list includes the alternative extra roles my group came up with.
Kingdom Card Generator: A little page that generates five separate Kingdom roles based on the version I play with my playgroup. Each time you load the page, it generates a new role. Designed to use for playing magic over video-conferences due to social distancing restrictions.
Lands Guide: Mana Gathering, is a good page with multi-colored lands all listed out.
Similar Card Search: Card Codex, works pretty well.
Shipping Cards: Pucatrade's guide to shipping magic cards.
Insuring Cards: A post on MTGPrice.com covers insuring your collection.

Pokemon Go Resources:

Event Countdown Timer: gives timers for all current and upcoming events.
Comprehensive DPS/TDO Spreadsheet, which I use for figuring out which moves are best.
Evolution Calculator: Gives a CP range for evolving a pokemon.
Silph Road, which has just about everything else you need (except the Pokedex was broken the last time I checked).