Free Software. As a student in the Computer Science Department at San Jose State, you have the right to obtain Visual Studio.NET (the software to be used in this course) for the shipping and/or media costs. Here's what you need to do: First, be enrolled in at least one CS course this semester. Then, you can just go to the CS Club (second floor of MacQuarrie Hall) and have them burn you a DVD. They will charge you only the cost of the blank DVD.

Alternately, you can get an "e-Academy registration number", and then go to e-Academy and register, using your registration number in the blank labeled "Student Identifier". Do not try to put your SJSU student ID in that blank. CS 130 students can get an e-Academy registration number by entering their student ID number on this page in the form below. CS students not enrolled in CS130 can get an e-Academy number from the CS Club. (Engineering and Business students cannot go through the CS club, but those schools have their own e-Academy programs.)

After registering, you will never use that e-Academy number again. When you want to log on to e-Academy, use the email address and password you gave them when you registered. At e-Academy, you can get your software in one of two ways:

(1) log on to e-Academy and order your software. They will ship it to you on DVD for the shipping costs (under $20).

(2) log on to e-Academy and download your software. Note, it will take many hours even over DSL.

Note that a lot of other software besides Visual Studio is available at the e-Academy website.

This is only going to work if your ID number is already known to this program. Thus, NOT YET. I will enter the numbers of those who are enrolled through MySJSU before the first day of class.