You will be informed of your account on CDF once it becomes available. Those unfamiliar with CDF will find Student's Guide to CDF to be useful. This guide is available in the bookstore and costs a couple of dollars. There is also an excellent book on Unix (in case you need to brush up on it), A Student's Guide to Unix by Harvey Hahn.
The CDF workstations are located in the Engineering Annex in EA107, EA201, and EA203. These rooms are locked. The combination changes at the beginning of every term. This term's combination is 1,4-5,2. A file /local/doc/frequently.asked.questions and a Web site http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/cdf/cdf.html contain a variety of useful information about working on the CDF Unix machines. You are asked to read newsgroups ut.cdf.announce and ut.cdf.general which contain postings summarizing the more important rules about account use and game playing. Finally, there is a limit to the free printing provided by CDF: 300 sides per student per course. Since most of the information for this course is going to be distributed electronically, you should use your quota carefully. You are encouraged to read manuals and other large volumes on-line, rather than printing them out.