Comp 437: Introduction to Concurrent Programming

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General Info

• Class hours: Thursday, 19:00-21:30, Water Tower Campus, Room LT-412 (Linux Lab)
• Instructor contact information
• Office hour
• Mailing list (subscription required)
• Catalog description
• Prerequisites: Comp 271 is required
• Ground rules (including policies on late submissions and grade disputes)

Required Text

• Goetz, Java Concurrency in Practice, Addison-Wesley, 2006, ISBN 0321349601, companion site, detailed TOC

Recommended Supplementary Texts

• Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns (2nd edition), Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0201310090, publisher link, companion site
• The Sun Java Tutorial: Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing (online)
• Spolsky, User Interface Design for Programmers, APress, 2001, ISBN 1893115941, publisher link, free online version
• Robinson et al., Swing (2nd edition), Manning, 2003, ISBN 193011088X, publisher link
• Christopher and Thiruvathukal, High-Performance Java Platform Computing, Prentice-Hall, 2000, ISBN 0130161640, publisher link

Grading

• Grading (tentative): Projects 50%; quizzes, extended quizzes, and exams 45%; (meaningful) mailing list participation 5%. Late projects cannot be accepted without severe penalties. You may talk about the projects with your fellow students, but you must not share code or any other written material.