All students will need access to the WWW as the course web site is at the very heart of the course. (E.g., this syllabus, all class slides, all handouts, all practice exams, all demos, etc. will be distributed via the web site.)
All students will of course need to have a Common Lisp package available to them. It must be Common Lisp (for reasons to be explained). You can acquire a free version of Allegro CL (the ``Lite") version from Franz Inc. -- a link to this company can be found on the web site for this course. This package is for Win 95/NT. (A Linux version of ACL is also available for no charge. This version is the full version of ACL!) Digitool Inc. offers an excellent Mac version of CL, but it's expensive (the link is on our site). There are a number of public domain CL packages floating around the Net; some are pretty darn stable. As a fallback, all students have access to Kyoto Common Lisp by telnet into RCS.