Texts

Required Reading

• Lectures

Recommended Reading

• Absolute Java (6th Edition) by Walter Savitch. (Highly recommended. This book walks the reader through Java at a reasonably slow pace.)

• Head-First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra and Elisabeth Robson. (An easy-going and fun introduction to design patterns with examples in Java.)

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides. (The standard reference for object-oriented design patterns.)

• How to Design Programs (Second Edition) by Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, and Krishnamurthi. Draft, 2010.

• How to Design Classes by Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Gray, Krishnamurthi, and Proulx. Draft, 2008.