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GRACS provides these links to textbooks used in CS grad courses for your convenience. About 4% of what you buy through these links goes to fund CS grad student events. This does not change the price to you — it comes out of Amazon's profits. So, please buy your stuff through these links!
Textbooks Spring 2012
Graduate Textbooks |
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| Course Number | Unique ID | Instructor | Textbook | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C S 388 Natural Language Processing |
53170 | R. Mooney | required | |
| C S 388C Combinatorics and Graph Theory |
53175 | A. Gal | required | |
| C S 391L Machine Learning |
53190 | D. Ballard | required | |
Undergraduate Textbooks |
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| Course Number | Unique ID | Instructor | Textbook | Status |
| C S 302 Computer Fluency |
52740 | E. Rich | required | |
| C S 303E Elements of Computers/Programming |
52745 52750 52755 52760 52765 52770 |
A. Norman M. Scott |
required | |
| C S 312 Intro to Programming |
52785 52790 52795 52800 |
S. Mitra |
Introduction to Java Programming, Brief Version. LIANG. 2011. |
required |
| C S 313E Elements of Software Design |
52805 | S. Mitra | required | |
| C S 313K Logic, Set, and Functions |
52811 52812 52813 52814 52820 52825 52830 52835 52840 52845 |
A. Klivans | required | |
| C S 314 Data Structures |
52850 52852 52855 52857 52860 52862 52865 52867 52870 52872 52875 |
G. Novak |
Data Structures and Problem Solving Using Java. WEISS. 2010. |
required |
| C S 324E Elements of Graphics and Visualization |
52880 | M. Scott | Filthy Rich Clients. HASSE. 2007. | required |
| C S 327E Elements of Databases |
52885 | S. Mitra | required | |
| C S 429 Computer Organization and Architecture |
52889 52890 52895 52900 52905 52910 52915 |
H. Boral O. Hofmann |
required | |
| C S 429H Computer Organization and Architecture: Honors |
52925 | E. Witchel | required | |
| C S 336 Analysis of Programs |
52930 52935 |
T. Warnow M. Eberlein |
required | |
| C S 439 Principles of Computer Systems |
52975 52980 52985 52990 52995 53000 |
M. Dahlin L. Alvisi |
required | |
| C S 341 Automata Theory |
53005 | RICH | required | |
| C S 343 Artificial Intelligence |
53010 | P. Stone | required | |
| C S 349 Contemporary Issues in Computer Science |
53025 53030 |
E. Rich A. Cline |
required | |
| C S 371P Object-Oriented Programming |
53055 53060 |
G. Downing | required | |
| C S 372 Introduction to Operating Systems |
53065 | A. Norman | required | |
| C S 373 Software Engineering |
53075 | G. Downing | required | |
| C S 378 Cosmic Dawn |
53098 | P. Shapiro | required | |
| C S 378 Game Technology |
53110 | D. Fussell | recommended | |
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Good Reference Books
- Knuth's classic The Art of Computer Programming (the new box set, 3rd edition, with all 4 volumes)
- The standard automata book: John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (3rd Edition).
- The "Gang of Four" software design patterns book: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
- The huge algorithms book, sometimes called CLRS: Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. 2009. Introduction to Algorithms, Third Edition.
- The standard programming language theory book: Benjamin C. Pierce. 2002. Types and Programming Languages.
- The standard architecture book: David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy. 2008. Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface.
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