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School of Computer Programming and Analysis (SCPA)

Software

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus is supplied by Seneca and used by everyone. It is strongly suggested you become familiar with the Microsoft Office 365 applications:

  • Outlook (email)
  • Word (word processing)
  • Teams (collaboration)
  • OneDrive (cloud storage)
  • Excel (data analysis)
  • PowerPoint (presentations)
FREE!

The Microsoft 365 suite of applications is free to install on your personal computer!

Office Online Portal

Desktop Installation

  • Full feature set of Office 365 applications is available for installation on your desktop (only when installed on your own computer at no charge)

  • Sign on to Office 365 with your Seneca account

  • From the "Install Office" drop-down menu near the top right, select Office 365 apps.

    warning

    If you have older or other versions of Microsoft Office apps already installed, it is strongly recommended that you uninstall them before installing Office 365.

Developement Tools

Visual Studio

The Visual Studio IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a professional-grade development tool widely used by industry leaders

Mac OSX

Visual Studio is not available for Mac OS. Students who wish to use Mac OS to do their work can alternatively use the following tools:

Thanks to Dr. P. Denny of The University of Aukland

VPN (Virtual Private Network)

To access Seneca services and servers, a VPN client must be running and connected on your system.

  • GlobalProtect VPN - See the Students section and install on your system.
  • See below for the Secure Shell and Secure File Transfer Protocol clients used to access the Matrix server where you submit and run acceptance testing on your C programs.

SFTP Client (Secured File Transfer Protocol)

Required for transferring files from your computer to Seneca's server

SSH Client (Secure Shell)

Required for interacting with Seneca servers in a terminal shell environment

Windows

  • PuTTY (installation details below)

MacOS

  • Use the built-in SSH terminal (Finder, Applications, Utilities)

Linux

  • Use the preinstalled OpenSSH terminal OR
  • Other Options including PuTTY

Browsers

Windows comes with Edge, Macs come with Safari. Other than those browsers, it is a good idea to get one or both of the following browsers

  • Chrome
  • Firefox