Readings for CSU 370 (Clinger)

• Clinger's review of freshman-level Java, part 1
• Clinger's review of freshman-level Java, part 2
• Read in textbook:
  • Chapter 1 (A Crash Course in Java)
  • Chapter 2 (The Object-Oriented Design Process)
  • Chapter 3 (Guidelines for Class Design)
  • Section 7.1 (The Java Type System)
  • Section 7.2 (Type Inquiry)
  • Section 7.3 (The Object Class)
  • Sections 4.1 - 4.5 (Interface Types and Polymorphism)
  • Sections 5.1 and 5.2 (Patterns)
  • Section 10.5 (The Singleton Pattern)
• Read The The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer, by Ed Nather.
• Read and study the recipe for translating an algebraic specification into Java
• Read in textbook:
  • Sections 8.1 - 8.3 (Frameworks)
  • Sections 4.6 - 4.7 (Frames and User Interface Components)
  • Section 6.2 (Graphics Programming with Inheritance)
  • Sections 4.8 - 4.10 (Drawing Shapes and Animation)
  • Sections 5.3 - 5.5 (Observer, Strategy, Composite, Decorator patterns)

Supplemental readings

• Alan Perlis. Epigrams on Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17(9), September 1982.
• The Antikythera mechanism is the earliest known analog computer; it was built in Greece about 2000 years ago, and now resides at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Last updated 30 November 2006.