Readings for COM 1205

• The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer
• Schach Chapter 1
• Schach Chapter 2
• Schach Chapter 3
• Java Tutorial: Learning the Java Language
• Schach pages 240-241, Just in Case You Wanted to Know (whence came C++ and Java)
• Schach Sections 6.4, 6.5, 6.6
• Schach Sections 9.2 through 9.8
• Schach Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.10
• Schach Sections 12.1, 12.6, 12.8
• Schach Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.9
• Schach Sections 13.6, 13.7, 13.8.1, 13.9, 13.10, 13.11
• Report on the destruction of Ariane 5 Flight 501

Supplemental readings

• Frederick P Brooks Jr. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley, 1975.
• Gerald M Weinberg. The Psychology of Computer Programming. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971.
• The list of winners of ACM's A. M. Turing Award
• A list of character sets

Last updated 7 March 2000.