Required Reading:

• Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Gray, Krishnamurthi, Proulx How to Design Classes 2008, available from NU Bookstore

Recommended Readings:

• Bloch Effective Java. Addison-Wesley, 2001
• Seesoft Java Precisely, 2nd Ed. MIT Press, 2005

  a concise description of all you ever want to know about Java
• Fowler and Scott UML Distilled. Addison-Wesley, 1997
• Strunk and White The Elements of Style. Bartelby.Com, 1918
• Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison Wesley, 1995

  a comprehensive study of design patterns
• Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi How to Design Programs. MIT Press, 2001. Part 1 is highly recommended for those that did not take CS 2500
• Felleisen, Friedman A Little Java, A Few Patterns. MIT Press, 1998

  why all what is in HtDP matters and how it scales to Java