DICE-UG: Introduction to Informatics Computing

Welcome to the School of Informatics!

This short course gives you an introduction to the computing environment at Informatics. Please work your way through it at your leisure.

Each section is followed by a link to more information on our computing help site.

The course covers these topics:

• Accounts
• What computers can I use?
• DICE
• Connecting to DICE from your own device
• Introductory exercises
• Other Services

To visit each topic, click the links above or on the right.

How to get help with Informatics computing

We hope that computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk will answer most of your questions, but when you need to contact us for computing help, here's how to do it:

• Fill in the form on our Help Desk page. Your message will go into a ticket system, and we will reply via email.
• If you need to speak to us in person you can find us in Room 1.07 in the Informatics Forum.

You can also find this information at https://computing.help.inf.ed.ac.uk/help-desk.

For services which are not specific to Informatics - for example mail or wifi - please get help from EdHelp.

Enjoy the course!

The Informatics computing support team 😀