References

API documentation

• http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/.

Eclipse

• Eclipse tutorial
• Eclipse installation
• Eclipse and Java: Using the Debugger
• watch the first lesson at YouTube without downloading.

Free Online Textbooks

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist by Allen B. Downey is a free textbook in PDF and covers similar materials in a very similar order.
• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel provides more help in Object-oriented design.
• Introduction to Programming Using Java by David J. Eck has a good intro to programming in the first few chapters.

• Java for programmers by Deitel and Deitel. This is more advanced than our textbook, but a good reference book for more details.
• Herb Schildt's Java programming cookbook
• Java pocket guide by Liguori and Liguori