Course Textbooks

Students will receive handouts of most course materials. NOTE: You will need to keep and use some of the co-op materials throughout your education at Northeastern. Do not throw these materials away!

Required Text (available in the NU Bookstore)

Todino-Gonguet, G., Strang, J., Peek, J. (2001). Learning the Unix Operating System (6th Edition). O'Reilly & Associates.

• Three weeks of CS U221 will consist of a short course on UNIX. You will need this textbook then.

Other interesting books and stuff, all on reserve in Snell Library

These are texts you might want to read, to learn more about the computer science industry.

• Tools for building a cool Web page. Nick Heinle.
• Designing with Javascript: creating dynamic Web pages. O'Reilly, 1997.
• Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere. Out of Their Minds: the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists. Copernicus, c1995.
• Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. Computer: a history of the information machine.

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