Tutorials

Short guides written by CUCaTS members, covering tools, programming and study skills.

Start here

• Command Line: paths, processes and shell scripts.
• Git: snapshots, branches and shared changes.
• Python Basics, OCaml Setup and Java: language tools and common mistakes.
• Project Structure: reproducible builds, interfaces and a task-engine design.

Build and maintain

• SQL and Databases: data models, queries and transactions.
• HTTP and Web Basics: requests, responses and browser behaviour.
• Docker and Hosting on the SRCF: running and deploying projects.
• Debugging, Testing and Profiling: finding failures and measuring changes.

Go further

• C++, OCaml Internals and Concurrency.
• Regular Expressions and Competitive Programming.
• LaTeX, Reading Papers and Math Example.

For market data and financial instruments, see Trading.

What makes a good one

Keep the scope clear. Explain what the reader needs, include relevant commands, and cover common problems. State version requirements where they matter.

See Writing a page to contribute or suggest a correction.

Ideas nobody has written up

• Development on University machines
• Cambridge VPN and networking
• Internship applications
• Getting more from supervisions
• Making an open-source contribution
• Linkers and loaders