Introductory Java

• Core Java 2: Vol. 1 - Fundamentals, 6th ed. by Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, 2002, Sun. (Most recent URL: www.sun.com/books/catalog/horstmann10/)
• Core Java 2: Vol. 2 - Advanced Features, 5th ed. by Cay S. Horstmann & Gary Cornell, 2000, Sun. (Most recent URL: www.sun.com/books/catalog/horstmann9/index.html)
• Learning Java, 2nd Ed., by Patrick Niemeyer & Jonathan Knudson, 2002, O'Reilly. Most recent URL: www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnjava2/.
• Java Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Java Developers, by Ian F. Darwin, 2001, O'Reilly. Author's site.
• On Line Tutorials:
  • The Java Tutorial Most recent URL: java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html
  • Essentials of the JavaProgramming Language: A Hands-On Guide by Monica Pawlan, March 1999. Most recent URL : developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Programming/BasicJava1/
• Swing
  • Graphic Java 2 -Mastering the JFC, Volume 2: Swing by David M. Geary, Prentice Hall, 1999- most recent URL: www.phptr.com
  • The JFC Swing Tutorial, by Kathy Walrath, Mary Campione, Addison-Wesley, 1999. On line version at : java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/books/swing/index.html

Advanced Topics & Reference

• Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.0 API Specification. Most recent URL: java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/
• The Java Language Specification Second Edition, by James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Gilad Bracha, Addison-Wesley Pub Co; 2000. java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/.
  • On line version of the specifications at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/jTOC.doc.html
• Java Performance Tuning by Jack Shirazi, 2000, O'Reilly.
• JavaTM Platform Performance Strategies and Tactics by Steve Wilson Jeff Kesselman, 2001, Sun Microsystems.
• Java Graphics
  • Java 2D Graphics by Jonathan Knudsen, 1999. www.oreilly.com/catalog/java2d/
  • Painting in AWT and Swing by Amy Fowler. Most recent URL: java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/painting/index.html
• Java I/O by Elliotte R. Harold, O'Reilly, 1999. Most recent URL: safari.oreilly.com/?XmlId=1-56592-485-1. Author's site : www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/ * www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio/
• Java Network Programming, 2nd Ed., Elliote R. Harold, 2000, O'Reilly. (www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanp2/), Author's site : www.ibiblio.org/javafaq/
• JVM:
  • Inside the Java 2 Virtual Machine by Bill Venners, 1999, McGraw-Hill.
  • Java Virtual Machine by Jon Meyer & Troy Downing, 1997, O'Reilly.
  • The Java(TM) Virtual Machine Specification, 2nd ed., Tim Lindholm & Frank Yellin, 1999, Sun Microsystems. Most recent URL: java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/VMSpecTOC.doc.html
• Threads:
  • Java Threads, 2nd Ed., by Scott Oaks & Henry Wong, 1999, O'Reilly.

Java : Science & Engineering

• Java Gently for Scientists & Engineers by Judith Bishop & Nigel Bishop, 2000, Addison-Wesley. javagently.cs.up.ac.za
• Java for Engineers and Scientists by Stephen J. Chapman, 2000, Prentice-Hall. cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/chapman/
  • Java for Engineers and Scientists, 2nd Edition, by Stephen J. Chapman, 2004, Prentice Hall, vig.prenhall.com:8081/catalog/academic/product/0,1144,0130335207,00.html
• Java for Scientists and Engineers by Richard Davies, 1999, Addison-Wesley. www.jscieng.co.uk
• Technical Java: Applications for Science and Engineering by Grant Palmer, 2003, Prentice-Hall. vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0131018159-TOC,00.html

Math

• Java Number Cruncher: The Java Programmer's Guide to Numerical Computing by Ronald Mak, 2003, Prentice Hall.
• A Numerical Library in Java for Scientists and Engineers, by Hang T Lau, 2003, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. Publishers page.
• Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods: An Introduction with Java and Smalltalk by Didier H. Besset, 2001, Morgan Kaufmann.
• Floating Point:
  • IEEE-754 References. Available at babbage.cs.qc.edu/courses/cs341/IEEE-754references.html
  • What Everybody Using the Java™ Programming Language Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic Joseph D. Darcy, Sun Microsystems, Inc. , SunOne Conference, 2002.
  • What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic, David Goldberg, www.validgh.com
  • Some Things You Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, Java Tech Tips, Feb.4,2003. developer.java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2003/tt0204.html#2
• Articles & Papers
  • Benchmarking Java technology against C and Fortran for Scientific Applications, Bull, Smith, Pottage, & Freeman (most recently at www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/research/publications/conference/ jgflangcomp_final.ps.gz)
  • The Evolution of Numerical Computing in Java - James Gosling - 1997. Most recent URL: java.sun.com/people/jag/FP.html
  • Numerical Computation Guide - Sun.com. Most recent URL: docs.sun.com/db/doc/801-7639

Scientific Simulations & Computational Physics

• An Introduction to Computer Simulation Methods: Applications to Physical Systems, 2th Ed., by Harvey Gould & Jan Tobochnik, 1996, Addison-Wesley.
• An Introduction to Computational Physics, by Tao Pang, 1997. Cambridge Univ Press.
• Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, W.H. Press, B.P. Flannery, S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, 1986. Numerical Recipes in C..., 2nd edition, January 1993. Numerical Recipes in Fortran..., 2nd edition ,January 15, 1992) and Numerical Recipes in C++..., 2nd edition February 2002. , Cambridge Univ. Press.

Other Java References

• Java in a Nutshell, 4th Ed., by David Flanagan, 2002, O'Reilly.

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