Top 10 July 2009 Downloads from the Faculty Resource Center 

The top 10 Faculty Resource Center downloads for the month of July, 2009 includes information on: F#, the Windows Operating System, ProjectOZ, XNA, Aspect.NET, and Expression Studio.

1. Don Syme: F# and Functional Programming in .NET
   In this TechTalk Don Syme touches on topics like asynchronous programming, graphics, why functional programming matters, just to mention a few topics, and everything explained with lots of samples and code!
   
   
2. Windows Operating System Internals Curriculum Resource Kit (CRK)
   The Windows Operating System Internals Curriculum Resource Kit (“CRK”) is a pool of teaching material and resources that explains the internals of the Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating system family based on the book Windows Internals, 4th edition (Microsoft Press).
   
   
3. Learn Programming with XNA
   "Getting Started Making Games with C# and XNA Game Studio" is a programming course for students with no prior programming experience. It is intended to engage students with the craft of programming by the creation of gameplay using the XNA game framework.
   
   
4. Expression Web Quick Start Tutorial: Beaches Around the World
   Basic Expression Web Tutorial - Learn to quickly create a cool Web site about the trip of your dreams to beautiful beaches around the world with this fast and easy Expression Web tutorial.
   
   
5. Introduction to Web Design Using Microsoft® Expression® Studio (v.2)
   This curriculum is a complete, standards-based, single semester course on Web Design. The curriculum provides an extensive collection of creative teaching and learning materials that thoroughly span Web Design knowledge and skills and promote meaningful, real-world learning experiences. The modular design makes is adaptable to a wide variety of teaching scenarios.
   
   
6. ProjectOZ
   ProjectOZ is an operating systems project environment that uses the native kernel interfaces of Windows to provide simple, clean, user-mode abstractions of the CPU, MMU, trap mechanism, and physical memory that can be used to perform experiments in operating systems principles. ProjectOZ comes with a basic OS (BasicOZ) built on top of the SPACE abstractions.
   
   
7. Leroy Hood: Systems Medicine: Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory (P4 Medicine)
   Dr. Leroy Hood, who is the President for the Institute for Systems Biology, talks about systems biology and how it will transform both biology and medicine in the 21st century. He will show the computational and mathematical challenges that biology has that is shared by all of the other major disciplines.
   
   
8. Introduction to Web Design Using Microsoft® Expression® Studio (v.2), Module 2 HTML Basics
   In Module 2 students learn basic HTML tags and explore the power of cascading style sheets (CSS) by creating simple Web pages. They also experiment with page design and explore concepts of Web standards and accessibility.
   
   
9. Introduction to Web Design Using Microsoft® Expression® Studio (v.2), Module 1 History and Future of the Web
   In Module 1 students explore the past and future of Web technologies and the structure of the Web. The rights and responsibilities surrounding intellectual property rights in an electronic world are emphasized.
   
   
10. Aspect.NET 2.1
    This is version 2.1 of Aspect.NET working with the latest Phoenix RDK (dated March 2007) and Visual Studio.NET Release (Standard or Professional edition). It provides a lot of enhanced functionality, is fully documented and contains a number of demo samples.