Computer Science 136 Data Structures and Advanced Programming

Course Information: [Complete Syllabus] [Lecture and Reading Schedule, Assignments]

Texts

The required text for the course is Java Structures: Data Structures in Java for the Principled Programmer, Second Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2003) by Duane A. Bailey. This is available from Water Street Books. You may also find it useful to purchase a Java reference of your choice. Core Java 2: Volume I - Fundamentals (Sun Microsystems Press) by Horstmann and Cornell is a good one. Be sure that any Java reference you choose is written for Java 1.4.

Course News

• Congratulations to Matt for winning both halves of this year's Darwin competition.
• Class examples are available on the CSLab Unix systems in /home/faculty/terescoj/shared/cs136/examples and on the Lab Macs in /Network/Servers/cortland.cs.williams.edu/Volumes/Courses/cs136/examples.
• We're done!

Related Information and Links

• Telnet is bad! Get and use a secure shell (ssh) client if you plan to work remotely. Unix and Mac OS X come with ssh clients installed. A free one for windows can be found here. This is important, since ftp and telnet are no longer allowed to CSLab systems. For file transfers, consider WinSCP under Windows or Fugu on the Mac.
• Very relevant web resources:
  • Java resources: [Eclipse Home Page] [Sun's Java Home Page] [A Java Tutorial] [Sun Java Packages Documentation] [Javadoc] [What's the Story with static?]
  • Learning Unix: [Unix on CSLab Macs] [Emacs Hints]
  • Textbook and Structure package resources: [Textbook Resources] [Documentation] [Source Code] [JAR file]
• Somewhat relevant web resources: [Williams Computer Science] [FreeBSD] [Mac OS X] [Slashdot]
• Less relevant (but more fun) web resources: [Dilbert] [Fox Trot] [Get Fuzzy] [User Friendly]
• Relevant, but hopefully not needed: The Williams College Honor System