Readings for CSU 370 (Clinger)

• Clinger's review of freshman-level Java, part 1
• Clinger's review of freshman-level Java, part 2
• Sestoft chapter 1: compilation, loading, and execution
• Sestoft chapter 3: Java naming conventions
• Sestoft chapter 4: comments and program layout
• Sestoft chapter 6: variables, parameters, fields, and scope
• Sestoft chapter 9: classes.
• Sestoft chapter 10: classes and objects.
• Sestoft chapter 5: types. Note that the first sentence of chapter 5 isn't really true.
• Recipe for translating an algebraic specification into Java using the Factory Pattern with static methods.
• Read The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer, by Ed Nather.
• Sestoft chapter 7: strings.
• Sestoft chapter 20: StringBuilder and StringBuffer.
• Sestoft chapter 21: generic types and methods.
• Sestoft chapter 22: generic collections and maps.
• Documentation for ConcurrentModificationException
• Sestoft chapter 16: threads, concurrent execution, and synchronization

Supplemental readings

• The Antikythera mechanism is the earliest known analog computer; it was built in Greece about 2000 years ago.
• The Java Tutorial contains a succinct discussion of static members and the relationship between classes and objects.
• Mark Grand's summary of the Abstract Factory Pattern.
• Abraham Lincoln understood quantifiers, as did George W Bush.
• Assignment 5 implements a topological sort.

Last updated 24 March 2009.