The Freeside Student Resources list consists of multiple categories of professional and academic resources which are aimed at aiding University of Hull students to gain further knowledge.

List originally comprised by @closebracket

Contents

• Student Discount / Free stuff
• Hull University Related
• Hull Related
• Business / Career
• Services
• Software
• Tools
• Educational Resources
• Other interesting stuff
• Other pages
  • Cyber Security
  • Electronic
  • Ethics, Law and Professionalism
  • Linux
  • Programming
  • Virtualisation
• Contributing

Student Discount / Free stuff

• Github Student Pack
• Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching - FREE Microsoft licenses for Windows 10 and 11, Visual Studio and other Windows server operating systems, excludes Microsoft Office!
• VMware IT Academy Program

VMware IT Academy is a similar program to the Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching, and allows students to obtain Software Products and Licensing for most of the VMware Products for FREE e.g. VMware Workstation, VMware vSphere, VMware Fusion. If you are a student of The Department of Computer science and Technology you would have been enrolled automatically. However sometimes your information may have "fallen through the cracks!", if so please reach out to me Andy Hancock via https://support.hull.ac.uk and mention Andy Hancock!

• Learning Python Book

• Google Workspace for Education - Gives students and teachers access to all premium Google Workspace tools. With access to various collaboration and productivity tools, it provides extra cloud storage to all authorised users.

• Lean Ansible for DevOps ebook by Jeff Geerling - Pay what you want Ebook for learning ansible. (Source)

Hull University Related

• Brian Tompsett Youtube Channel - Brian is a lecturer at University of Hull and has a long list of published works
• Andrew Hancock - Andrew is the VMware Specialist in Computer Science & Technology, responsible for architecture, watering & feeding the Computer Science and Technology VMware infrastructure. He also has a long list of VMware and Virtualisation articles. Please also see VMware IT Academy Program
• The Yellow Book - A fantastic intro to C# from former Hull Lecturer, Rob Miles. He also has other publications available here.
• Rob Miles Youtube
• HullBlogs - A collection of blogs from UoH staff, alumni and current students.
• Freeside Discord
• #HullCSS - Discord
• Hull Gaming Society
• Hull Robotics Society - Discord
• University of Hull Unofficial Discord Server
• Department of Computer Science and Technology Twitter
• University of Hull - Hull's digital repository, Hydra
• LaTeX Dissertation / Report Templates - (unofficial edit of an official template)
• Hull University Employability Award - Get an award from the university for extracurricular activities.
• Hull University Buddy - Chrome extension to help students navigate around University resources quicker.

Hull Related

• For Entrepreneurs Only - Headquartered on UoH campus providing business mentoring and support.
• C4Di - (Hull Based)
• Connected Humber Hardware Meetups
• Hull Central Library Makerspace
• Hull Chamber of Commerce

Business / Career

• Google Campus - (London Based)
• Barclays Eagle Labs - (Nationwide)
• For Entrepreneurs Only - Headquartered on UoH campus providing business mentoring and support.
• C4Di - (Hull Based)
• 5 ways to help get into the games industry
• Writing the ideal CV for the games industry
• University of Hull Computer Science Linkedin Group
• Network Yorkshire Linkedin Group
• One Hull Business Forum Linkedin Group
• The Yorkshire Mafia Linkedin Group
• Yorkshire Enterprise Network Linkedin Group
• York & Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership Linkedin Group
• Forage - Offers 5-6 hours virtual work experience programs.

Services

• Migadu.com - Unlimited cheap email for lots of domains.
• Github Pages
• Gitlab
• Matomo - Self hosted Google Analytics alternative.
• Wekan - Open source Kanban.
• Shodan - Create an account with your University email address to get free membership.
• Spyse - Internet assets registry that scan, collect, analyze, and provide information on internet entities💰.
• The Things Network
• Programmable Web APIs
• A list of publicly available APIs
• GitHub Gist - For sharing code quickly and privately.

Software

• Atom Editor
• Jetbrains Editors
• The Awesome Self-Hosted List - a list of open source projects which can be self-hosted. The list comprises an amazing range of fascinating tools and projects.
• Bashmarks
• Doctl
• The Big Warehouse - A collection of resources for programmers.
• Dockstation - Docker GUI for Windows, Mac and Linux
• Tush - a literate testing shell
• Haven Self Hosted Blog - A self hosted private blog built with ruby on rails.
• Fritzing - A software for designing circuits, PCBs and testing them virtually.
• Katakoda - Katacoda provides a platform to build live interactive demo and training environments.
• CodeSandbox - CodeSandbox is an online code editor and prototyping tool that makes creating and sharing web apps faster.

Tools

• BuiltWith - Find out what websites are built with.
• Regexr - A Regex helper.
• delim.co - Quickly convert column data to delimited data.
• GitHub Command Line - Do common GitHub tasks from the command line.
• Privatebin - Open-source pastebin client that can also be self-hosted.
• Ouroboros - Keep those docker containers up to date.
• TLDR Pages - Simplified man pages.
• Explain Command - A quick way to see what commands and their options do before running them.
• RefWorks - A reference manager with University of Hull standard support.
• Connected Papers - Visualise an academic field and find similar papers.

Educational Resources

• Microsoft Learn - Microsoft Learn has tutorials, documentation, and structured learning modules to help teach how to use Microsoft services and products.
• Math Talks to Blow Your Mind Playlist
• Data Structures Playlist
• Harvard CS50x
  • Harvard CS50 2018 Lectures Playlist
  • Harvard CS50 for Lawyers Playlist
  • CS50 Youtube Channel
• NullByte - (Youtube Channel)
• NumberPhile - (Youtube Channel)
• Computerphile - (Youtube Channel)
• Docker's Official Youtube
• Brian Tompsett Youtube Channel - Brian is a lecturer at University of Hull and has a long list of published works.
• Rob Miles Youtube
• Install LAMP on Ubuntu - Tutorial on installing LAMP on Ubuntu
• CRISP-DM PyData 2015
• Tackling Imposter Syndrome, a cambridge students perspective
• Digital Ocean Tutorials - System Administration tutorials from Digital Ocean. Can be followed on any Linux machine.
• The Basics by Tom Scott
• How To Build An App: Everything You Didn't Know You Needed To Know
• Jeff Geerling - YouTube channel with lots of Raspberry Pi projects and tests, along with resources on Kubernetes, Ansible and more.
• Data Structures and Algorithms Visualiser - Provides visulation for different data structures and algorithms like sorting, linked lists, hash table etc. Also allows some customizations.
• Semantic Scholar - An artificial-intelligence backed search engine for academic publications.
• arXiv - Open-access repository of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics and more.
• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - Collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources.
• dblp - Provides open bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
• ScienceDirect - A large bibliographic database of scientific publications.
• University of Hull - Hull's digital repository, Hydra
• Visualisation and Audibilization of Sorting Algorithms - Visualize different sorting algorithms and listen the sound of sorting.
• Sentdex Youtube Channel - Youtube channel to learn Machine learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and python.
• Udemy - Udemy free courses to help learn a range of skills (Offers paid courses).
• Coursera - Coursera free courses to help learn a range of skills (Offers paid courses).
• Pure Bash Bible - A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.
• Learn Git Branching - A visual Git tutorial.
• ffmpeg Guide - Some useful tricks for ffmpeg.
• SAG - The Linux System Administrator's Guide.
• Regexone - A Regex guide.
• the-art-of-command-line - Learn the command line (specifically Bash).

Other interesting stuff

• E Foundation
• Satyr - Self hosted media streaming
• File Stash
• MIT Press: Reading code != Reading Language
• Andrew Hancock talks with Experts Exchange about Career Growth and VMware
• Andrew Hancock talks with Experts Exchange about being an IT Author and British Beekeeper

Other pages

• Cyber Security
• Electronic
• Ethics, Law and Professionalism
• Linux
• Programming
• Virtualisation

Contributing

Contributions are greatly appreciated! Either make a pull request or an issue with your addition! For guidance, see: Contributing.md

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