Course Textbooks

Students will be provided with a binder at the start of class. Use this binder to keep all course and co-op preparation 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!

No other textbooks are required for this course. However, several are suggested:

Transfer Students (and graduate students unfamiliar with UNIX)

Todino-Gonguet, G., Strang, J., Peek, J. (2001). Learning the Unix Operating System (5th Edition). O'Reilly & Associates.

Other interesting books/documents, 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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