Printed resources

Required textbook

John Lewis and William Loftus: Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design, 5/E, Addison-Wesley, 2006, ISBN: 0-32-140949-3. Although the book comes with a CD, you're better off downloading the most recent course resources from the companion website.

You will also need MyCodeMate, a "virtual TA" which gives you support as you work on your assigned homework. For using MyCodeMate, you need an individual access code, which you can either get packaged with the textbook (ISBN 0-32-146979-8), when you buy the textbook from the Rutgers Bookstore (the package costs roughly $6 more than the textbook alone), or you can buy it online, from http://www.mycodemate.com (for $24 if you pay by credit card).

Attention ! Whether you buy the textbook or not, you have to buy the MyCodeMate access code, so that you can complete your homeworks and get graded !

Note that MyCodeMate comes with the textbook in electronic format (in PDF) so, if you have a tight budget, you may decide not to buy the textbook and use the electronic copy instead.

The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used to develop the Java programs and projects for this course is jGRASP. It comes on the CD, but the most recent version is available at http://www.jgrasp.org/.

Please explore the various online resources, such as:

• a Java style guide
• "Guidelines for teaching Object Orientation with Java"
• Pedagogical Patterns
• Violet, an open-source UML editor, supporting object-oriented design

Recommended textbooks

• David Flanagan: Java in a Nutshell, 4th edition. O'Reilly, 2002 (covers Java 1.4).
  Online materials at: http://www.oreilly.com.catalog.javanut4/ .
  Very fast-paced tutorial for Java, with fairly complex examples. Very good as a reference book.
• (David Flanagan: Java Examples in a Nutshell, 2nd edition. O'Reilly, 2000 (covers Java 1.3).)
  More complex and complete examples..

• Cay S. Horstmannn, Gary Cornell: Core Java 2, vol I: Fundamentals (2005), vol II: Advanced Features (2004). Sun Microsystems Press, 2002.
  I like the style, clear and concise.

• Bruce Eckel: Thinking in Java, 3rd edition. Prentice Hall, 2003.
  A pretty good introduction to Java as an object-oriented language, but it assumes some familiarity with programming (in a different language). Also available online (free !) at http://www.bruceeckel.com.

• Ian F. Darwin: Java Cookbook - Solutions and Examples for Java Developers. O'Reilly, 2001.
  As the name suggests, it's a book of receipes on how to do various things with Java.
  It comes with a website at: http://javacook.darwinsys.com.

• Glenn Brookshear: Computer Science - An Overview, Addison Wesley, 2003, ISBN: 0201781301. Webpage at http://wps.aw.com/aw_brookshear_compsci_7/, including teaching slides.

• Ivor Horton: Beginning Java 2, JDK 5 Edition, Wiley, 2005, ISBN: 0-7645-6874-4.

• Joe Wigglesworth and Paula McMillan: Java Programming: Advanced Topics, Thomson - Course Technology, 2004, ISBN: 0-619-15968-5.

• Art Gittleman: Advanced Java: Internet Applications, Scott Jones, 2002, ISBN: 1-57676-096-0. Webpage at http://www.cecs.csulb.edu/~artg/internet/advanced.html.

• David Geary: Graphic Java 2, vol 1: AWT, vol 2: Swing , vol 3: 2D, The Sun Microsystem Press.

• John Zukowski: The Definitive Guide to Java Swing, Apress, 3rd edition, 2005, ISBN 1-59059-447-9.

• Robert Sedgewick: Algorithms in Java, Parts 1-4: Fundamntals, data Structures, Sorting, Searching; part 5: Graph Algorithms. Addison-Wesley / Pearson Education, 2003, ISBN: 0-201-36120-5.

• Martin Fowler: UML distilled, 3rd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN: 0-321-19368-7.

• Cay Horstmann, Object-Oriented Design and Patterns, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2006, ISBN: 0-471-74487-5.

• Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Freeman: Head First Design Patterns, O'Reilly, 2004, ISBN:0-596-00712-4.

• Steve Holzner: Eclipse, O'Reilly, 2004, ISBN: 0-596-00641-1. Also see http://www.eclipse.org/.

• Tim Boudreau et al: NetNeans - The Definitive Guide, O'Reilly, 2003, ISBN: 0-596-00280-7. Also see http://www.netbeans.org/.

• Joe Walnes et al: Java Open Source Programming, Wiley, 2004, ISBN: 0-471-46362-0.

• Frederick P. Brooks: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition), Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0201835959.
  The classic book on the human elements of software engineering.

Web resources

Note. You will spend a fortune if you want to stay up-to-date with new Internet technology by buying books. Learns to find and use documentation, tutorials, and other such Web resources.

Java

• Download the Java Software Developers Kit (J2SDK).
• Sun's Java 1.5 documentation (of particular interest is the API)
• Sun's Java tutorial
• Java data typtes
• The Java Collection Classes, from Sun's online Java Tutorial.
• User Interfaces that Swing: A Quick Start Guide.
• Description of the Javadoc tool, including a list of Javadoc tags.
• How to Write Doc Comments for the Javadoc TM Tool - Sun's own recommendations for writing good comments.
• Sun Development Network - Technical Tips

Interesting articles

• Vicki L. Almstrum - What is the attraction to computing?, CACM 46(9), Sep 2003.
• Keith Devlin - Why universities require computer science students to take math, CACM 46(9), Sep 2003.
• Kim B. Bruce, Robert L. Scot Drysdale, Charles Kelemen, Allen Tucker - Why math ?, CACM 46(9), Sep 2003.
• Peter B. Henderson - Mathematical reasoning in software engineering education, CACM 46(9), Sep 2003.
  

Games

• Robocode
• CodeRally
• CodeRuler