Software on Student PCs
Full list of applications can be found here
| Category | Application | Function/ comments |
| Operating System | Windows 10 | |
| Office Software |
MS Office 2016
|
Word processing, Spreadsheet, graphs, Presentations (on screen and printed), Image handling |
| Network | Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, PuTTY (Telnet/SSH Client), MobaXterm | Web browsers and set of accessories for remote access to other computers |
| Maths & Stats | SPSS, Matlab, Maple, Minitab, Mathematica, R , RStudio, Texmaker, LaTeX (TeXLive), (TeXLive), LyX, gnuplot | Computer algebra , Data analysis, statistics, Charts and graphs, Mathematical typesetting |
| Programming | MingW tools, C, C++, Java (JDK & JRE), Python, Eclipse IDE, BlueJ IDE | Programming languages and integrated development environments, (IDES’s), Programming libraries |
| Drawing , Graphics and image processing | ImageJ, GIMP, Inkscape | Chemistry drawing package, Image editing, Graphic manipulation |
| Viewers | Adobe Acrobat Reader, Ghostscript, dviout (TeXLive), Evince | PDF viewers, postscript file viewers, dvi file viewers |
| Library | Databases, Library Catalogue, Web Pages | Library databases, Links to library catalogue, Links to library home page |
| General | Calculator, Paint, Notepad, Virus Scan, WordPad, 7zip | Simple calculator, Drawing program, Simple text editor, Archiving, Virus checking software, Basic Word Processor |
| Specialist departmental | Various (see list below) | We support a wide variety of specialist software for the academic departments. This software covers areas such as astronomy, psychology, microscopy, etc... |
| Specialist Departmental | Specialist software | Software location |
| Engineering | Abaqus, Advanced Aircraft Analysis (AAA), Ansys, CES Edupack, GaBI Education, National Instruments Software, PTC Creo, SolidWorks, StarCCM | Engineering 128D, Mile End Library, The Hive, Queen’s EB7 and W207. |
| Economics (Trading Lab) | Bloomberg, XTrader | Queen’s W307 |
| Language Centre PC Labs | Classroom Control, sound and video streaming facility (Televic software) | Francis Bancroft 1st floor Language Centre |