PyCharm Educational Edition is a free, open-source software product under the Apache 2.0 license. Instructors can use PyCharm Educational Edition to create, change, and distribute interactive courses.  Students can use the software to get instant feedback and assignment scores. Users can report bugs on the public

Vanderbilt’s McAfee VirusScan for Mac subscription is set to expire December 31, 2014. Vanderbilt licenses Microsoft System Center EndPoint Protection (SCEP) as the preferred virus-scanning product through its Microsoft Campus Agreement.

Vanderbilt faculty and students are eligible to buy Minitab 17, Minitab Express, and Minitab Quality Companion 3 through the Software Store. Six-month subscriptions cost $29.99. Twelve-month subscriptions cost $49.99. See http://www.minitab.com/en-us/academic/ for teaching resources.

On November 12, Microsoft announced: It is going to open source the full server-side .NET core stack The open source version of .NET will support Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux Visual Studio Community 2013 is available and offers free access to all Visual Studio features Visual Studio 2015 Preview and

The Software Store now offers free of charge subscriptions for nQuery Advisor + nTerim to the Vanderbilt community. Faculty, staff, and students are eligible to download the software through the Software Store. Customers may install the software on home computers and computers owned by Vanderbilt. Subscriptions expire each year on September 24 and require an annual renewal. Users have access to Premium Support through Statistical Solutions during the subscription term. Subscriptions include produc

MathWorks recently announced the following changes for MATLAB platform support: OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): Support begins with R2014b Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Support begins with R2014b Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Support begins with R2014b Dropped Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008: R2015a will be the last release that supports Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 R2, and Windows Server 2008. 32-bit Win

Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students can save for the holidays through Dell: November 11 - November 19th: Exclusive AMD offers November 20 - November 25: Exclusive pre-sale for Members Only!  These deals will not be available to the public. November 26 - November 28: Black Friday!  Deals begin at midnight are limited in quantity. December 1 - December 7: Cyber Week!  Dell will have limited quantity deals on Cyber Monday and standing deals lasting all week long. December 8 - December 14: Days of Deals!  Dell will offer a new dea

Vanderbilt students are eligible for a free of charge subscription to Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus through the Microsoft Student Advantage Program. Subscriptions initially included 1TB of storage through OneDrive for Business.  Microsoft recently announced it is dropping the storage limit.  Office 365 subscribers now get unlimited OneDrive storage. Student Advantage customers will see their storage upgrades during 2015. See https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage-faq/ fo

Mathworks is hosting a free MATLAB workshop on campus next week. Date: November 12, 2014 Time: 2:00-5:00 p.m. Location: 298 Jacobs Hall Register This hands-on workshop provides an introduction to Simulink’s hardware support capabilities. Using Raspberry Pi as the target platform, participants will develop, simulate, and test custom algorithms, and deploy them on a Raspberry Pi platform from within the Simulink environment.  Lab modules will include examples of v

Mathworks released MATLAB release 2014b last month.  Release Notes System Requirements Current MATLAB subscribers are eligible to upgrade to release 2014b free of charge.  The Software Store placed free a free download in the accounts of eligible customers.