Textbooks
There is one required textbook
for the course (available in the UCSD bookstore, online, etc.):
Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java, Second Edition,
by Mark Allen Weiss (Addison Wesley Longman publishers)
Lecture Notes
Lecture notes will be available online.
Other Resources
Many resources for Java programmers exist
on the web; we list only a few here. Sun has extensive
online Java tutorials and documentation.
For example, it is very useful to learn to use the
"javadoc"-generated documentation of the Java 6
standard library packages.
And Java Practices has
a nice summary of how and why
to use javadoc with your own code.
If you want to download JDK 5.0 for your own machine, go
here for Linux, Win32 and Solaris
versions, and
here for links to other ports.
Version Control
When working in a team, it can easily be worth your time to
consider using a source code management system such as CVS or Subversion. We have
a brief
CVS tutorial
and a
SVN tutorial
online.
Make
At least consider using make to automate some aspects of software
development! Here is a quick
tutorial on using make for Java development
.