Suggestions & Software

Guidelines & Templates

• Design guidelines for research papers of the chair of finance and financial studies
• Corporate design templates TU Dresden (templates for presentations)

Computer Pools

• Opening hours
• Occupancy
• Hard- and software available at the computer pool of the faculty of economics

The Writing Center of TU Dresden

• Writing Center

Software

Allgemein

• DreamSpark program of the faculty of economics
• Overview of student licences
• TU Dresden cloud service

Text Processing

• Microsoft Office (for free)
• OpenOffice.org
• TeX for Windows / TeX for Mac
• TeXStudio (Windows/Linux/Mac OS) (TeX required)
• TeXMaker (Windows/Linux/Mac OS) (TeX required)

View or Create PDF

• Adobe Acrobat Professionel 7 (free after registration)
• Sumatra PDF Viewer

Literature Management

• Mendeley
• JabRef
• EndNote
• zotero
• SLUB introductory course to literature management
• SWOT-analysis of literature management programs (SLUB)

R

• R Project homepage
• RStudio (IDE, integrated development environment for R)
• R extensions for finance
• Rmetrics Project (R extension for finance)

ZIH & VPN Zugang

• Free software suggestions of the ZIH
• Installation VPN

Online Course & Introductions

• Coursera (courses: finance, R, statistics, programming etc.)
• Stanford Online Classes (courses: statistics etc.)
• video2brain (via SLUB Login, courses: LaTeX, Excel, VBA, Java, C++ etc.)
• Overview of LaTeX Tutorials (Dr. Rudl, department for mathematical stochastics, TU Dresden)