Want to work as a consultant at SOCS labs?



School of Computer Science

Computer Lab Consultants


The computer labs provide students taking the courses offered by the School of Computer Science with the necessary computing facilities. We have consultants on duty to assist computer science students with some basic tasks.
  • Lab Locations:

    The undergraduate labs are located in Trottier Building on the third floor. Look here for more info.

  • Lab Hours:

    Labs are accessible 24/7 with a valid student card.

  • Lab Consultant Schedule:

    A consultant is on duty from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm Monday to Friday, and from 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

  • Helpful Resources:

  • Network and Services

  • Basic UNIX commands
  • Basic EMACS commands
  • Basic GDB commands

  • LaTeX guide
  • MIT Scheme documentation
  • Some Java examples

  • If you are a graduate student or an undergraduate in your final year at the School of Computer Science and you want to work as a consultant in the SOCS labs you should:
  • Visit Lab Consultant Application page and apply.
  • Be prepared to write a one hour exam covering Java, C, LINUX and MS-Windows. More specifically it will cover the following areas -
    1. Unix -- The following pages are usually helpful:
    2. Windows -- Questions here will be based mainly on how windows can be used in the labs and basic interoperability between Windows and Unix/Linux.
    3. Java -- COMP 202 level questions are asked in this section. You need to have familiarity with Object Oriented Programming, Exception Handling, be able to write and compile a basic program, and identify programming and syntax errors.
    4. C -- COMP 206 level questions are asked in this section. You need to be able to write and compile a basic program (particularly in linux), and identify programming and syntax errors.
  • Have good familiarity with the operating environment of the SOCS lab
  • For further information, email lab supervisor, Faiyaz Zamal at faiyaz.zamal[at]mail.mcgill.ca

    Last updated: September 2, 2010.
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