Version Control Systems

[calcmogul]

The team I mentor uses C++. We have our code hosted on GitHub and use Git as our version control system.

Each of our programmers tends to have their own laptop and they each test changes independently. Once each has been tested, changes are pushed to GitHub and merged at the end of the night. One of the more experienced students and I fix conflicts as they arise.

As for internet, you could write a batch script for changing your network settings. I'm pretty sure there's a thread on CD that has discussed that before.

There's a simulator for LabVIEW and perhaps Java too, but I don't know of one for C++.