LibGuides: Computing and IT: Learning Resources

Books and eBooks available via UHI Library Service

Looking for books in your subject area:

To search for books on your subject area you can use Library Search. Watch the Library Search video for an overview of the new system.

Reading list modules (Talis):

You can also look up books in your reading list. To find your list search by module title or module code. Some lists may be found by course title. Not all Resource Lists can be found this way but please ask your module leader or tutor if you need help finding your recommended reading.

eResources available via UHI Library Service

ACM Digital Library The world’s most comprehensive database of full-text articles and bibliographic literature covering computing and information technology.
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Scopus Very large research database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
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Web of Science Very large research database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
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Science Direct eJournals and eBooks Contains thousands of full text articles as well as eBooks.
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SpringerLINK : eJournals and eBooks Full-text resource of over 1,200 fully peer-reviewed journal titles. Full text for the majority of journals available from 1997 onwards. Full text of approx 34000 eBooks also located here.
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We subscribe to hundreds of online eCollections but these are our top collections for computer science.

Useful Websites - Animation

AREA AREA is an online community for the fields of animation, games, film and TV, VFX, design visualisation and advertising.

Useful Websites - Cyber Security

The National Cyber Security Centre Provides information, advice and guidance plus news and blog.

Useful Websites - Digital Design

Bitmap Images Bitmap images—technically called raster images—use a rectangular grid of picture elements (pixels) to represent images. Each pixel is assigned a specific location and colour value. When working with bitmap images, you edit pixels rather than objects or shapes.
Illustrator tutorials Learn how to create beautiful vector art and illustrations on desktop and iPad.

Useful Websites - Gaming

Blender Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
Construct 3 Make games with Construct 3.
Epic Games From engine-wide features to useful tools and functions, it's documented here.
ETC Press ETC Press, based at Carnegie Mellon University, produces open access books and ejournals on entertainment technology, game theory, and game playing.
Godot Third-party tutorials and resources created by the Godot community.
Unity Includes over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience. Sign in to track your progress, earn badges, bookmark content, and get personalised recommendations.
Unreal Advanced real-time 3D creation tool for photoreal visuals and immersive experiences.

Useful Websites - General

Cogprints Electronic archive including papers on computer science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks).
arXiv.org Provides free access to articles including computer science.

Useful Websites - Programming

Code Academy You will learn all the common HTML tags used to structure HTML pages, the skeleton of all websites. You will also be able to create HTML tables to present tabular data efficiently.
HTML tutorial In this HTML tutorial, you will find more than 200 examples. With our online "Try it Yourself" editor, you can edit and test each example yourself.
Khan Academy Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system.
Python.org Python is a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively.
w3schools W3Schools is a web developers site, with tutorials and references on web development languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Python, jQuery, Java, C++, C#, React, XML, W3.CSS, and Bootstrap, covering most aspects of web programming.

Computing and IT