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Lectures:

Course	Days	Times			Location
CISC 3120	TH	6.30 pm	-	9.10 pm	5122 New Ingersoll

Books:

There is no textbook, but these are two books I have found useful in preparing material for the course.

The first is the only real textbook I'm going to list. It's one that I used a lot in constructing the course. It's a pretty good book for those new to Java and object-oriented programming.

Note, however, that it is not the textbook for the course (since there isn't one).

Learning Java, Patrick Niemeyer and Johnathan Knudsen, O'Reilly, 3rd Edition, 2005

You can get this from Amazon or direct from the publisher's website.

The second book is not a book that you should buy to teach you about Java, but it is a very comprehesive reference, a book to go back to again and again while you are programming in Java. Then again, you can find a lot of this information online.

Java in a Nutshell, David Flanagan, O'Reilly, 5th Edition, 2005.

You can get this from Amazon or direct from the publisher's website.

Description:

This course aims to teach you two things:

Some of the basic features of the Java programming language; and
Some basic ideas in graphical user interfaces, network programming and graphics.

Because Java is an object oriented language, the course will also give you further exposure to object oriented programming.

You can find more detail on what we will cover on the syllabus page.

Finally, here are some hints for how to succeed in CIS 1.5.


Learning Java, Patrick Niemeyer and Johnathan Knudsen, O'Reilly, 3rd Edition, 2005
You can get this from Amazon or direct from the publisher's website.