|| Anderson, Julie, and Herve J. Franceschi:
Java 5 Illuminated, 2005.
Horstmann and Cornell: Core Java 2, Volume I – Fundamentals (7th Edition), 2004.
Eckel, Bruce: Thinking in Java, 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall, 2002.
Available free on the web at www.mindview.net.
We will be using the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and debugger to
write, compile, and test Java code.
install Java and Eclipse.
We will be using the Java 1.5.0 Development Kit for our labs and projects.
|Java Class Library:
||The Java API Specification is the MOST IMPORTANT REFERENCE that you will use while programming. It is available at
|Java and/or programming links:
The ASCII Character Set
A brief overview of the IEEE Standard 754
Floating Point Numbers
UNIX manual pages
A short, entertaining animation about
pointers in Java
(what I call references in class).