Required Reading:

• Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Gray, Krishnamurthi, Proulx How to Design Class Hierarchies ..., 2003
• Strunk and White The Elements of Style. Bartelby.Com, 1918
• Bloch Effective Java. Addison-Wesley, 2001
• For a detailed selection of chapters for reading, please, see the alternate course page.
• A link to the Java 1.4.2 API
• A link to the JPT API
• A link to the JPT Tutorials

Recommended Readings:

• Fowler and Scott UML Distilled. Addison-Wesley, 1997
• Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Addison Wesley, 1995

  a comprehensive study of design patterns
• Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi How to Design Programs. MIT Press, 2001

  At least Part 1 is highly recommended for those that did not take COM 1100 in the Fall 2002
• Felleisen, Friedman A Little Java, A Few Patterns MIT Press, 1998

  why all what is in HtDP matters and how it scales to Java
• Sestof Java Precisely MIT Press, 2002

  a small and concise explanation of Java

Readings in Effective Java by Joshua Bloch:

• Foreward by Guy L Steele Jr (who was a co-inventor of Scheme)
• Item 5: Eliminate obsolete object references
• Item 7: Obey the general contract when overriding equals
• Item 9: Always override toString
• Item 11: Consider implementing Comparable
• Item 16: Prefer interfaces to abstract classes
• Item 26: Use overloading judiciously
• Item 31: Avoid float and double if exact answers are required
• Item 38: Adhere to generally accepted naming conventions
• Item 39: Use exceptions only for exceptional conditions
• Item 40: Use checked exceptions for recoverable conditions and run-time exceptions for programming errors