Tips/Ressources

You can find recommended reading and further information directly on our Teaching pages.

Tips for Studying

• Tips for Preparing for Exams: discover in just a few slides how to optimize your exam preparation with evidence-based strategies — from the forgetting curve to effective learning tools).

Learning Development Tools (git, the command line, etc.)

• Your Missing Semester of Computer Science Education (courses on how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more).
  • Lecture Overview 2026 (see here for our local copy).
  • Lecture Overview 2020 (see here for our local copy).
  • Lecture series also available on YouTube.

Tools Provided by the University

• Usertools FB3 to manage ssh keys, check your account affiliation with FB3, University services (Overleaf CEP, Nextcloud, Mattermost, StudIP,...), etc.
• Onlinetools ZfN to check your account information at the University of Bremen, manage groups, mail aliases, ....
• SSH login on many Linux/Unix computers at the CS department; also, it shows you how to set up public key authentication.
• Services provided by FB3 IT.

Programming Languages

• Python: a simple, high-level language used a lot for scripting and very common in ML, AI, and data analysis (Godot's GDScript is also quite similar to Python)
  • Tutorials that can be done in the browser (to a large extent):
    • futurecoder.io (free, open-source, and highly interactive course to learn Python from scratch)
    • learn-python.adamemery.dev
    • Python Tutorial from Jetbrains (a company that makes software tools for programmers. Helps you write, test, and manage code more easily).
  • Build tools & package manager:
    • pip (Python's package manager)
    • pipenv (creates and manages per project virtual environments)
    • uv (modern, fast replacement for pipenv)
• C++ (high performance programming language used frequently in game & graphics programming, e.g. Unreal Engine or Godot)
  • Tutorials, that can to a large part be done in the browser:
    • CPlusPlus (very extensive)
    • LearnCPP (very extensive)
    • W3
  • Build tools:
    • CMake (a common cross-platform build system for C++-projects)
    • There are many more, but Meson is another popular build system for C++-projects.
• CUDA (NVidia's C/C++ language extension to write massively parallel algorithms for their GPUs)
  • CUDA Programming Guide
  • A Very Lengthy CUDA Youtube Tutorial
• C# (common object oriented programming language used by e.g. Unity or Godot)
  • FreeCodeCamp (YouTube) - C# Tutorial – Full course for beginners covering all the basics.
  • C# Language Reference

Other Tools & Systems

• Learning Git (Git is a tool that lets you track, save, and compare changes to files)
  • Gitlab at the CS dept. and learn GitLab with tutorials.
  • Brief Git / VCS rundown: agripongit.vincenttunru.com
  • Interactive Learning Tool: learngitbranching.js.org
• Games / Tutorials to learn the Unix shell
  • Terminus (browser based)
  • Bash Crawl
• Docker (Docker is a way to run software in small, isolated boxes called containers)
  • Docker Tutorial
  • Docker Reference
  • Docker Compose Reference
• Learning SQL (SQL is the dominant language used to query databases)
  • SQL Bolt, Interactive Tutorial
• CI/CD (CI/CD is a way to automate building, testing, and delivering software)
  • Atlassian - What is CI/CD?
  • GitLab CI/CD Tutorial
• Virtual Machines for projects whose requirements cannot be met by the existing IT services. Like a real computer, but it’s just software.