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Lecture 24

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Performance

• Performance is very important, especially if
  you are writing computation or information
  handling intensive applications. A great tool
• for seeing what slows down your programs is
  Optimize It! Also, if you have a chance,
• please read Java performance programming (I)
  and Java performance programming (II)

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Refactoring

• Refactoring is extremely useful technique to
  compliment your designs. The idea
• is to constantly improve and change your code
  to make it better and easier to
• read. An absolute must read is
• Refactoring, by Martin Fowler

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Embedded and Consumer Technologies

• EmbeddedJavaTM -
• Java Application Environment for dedicated
  embedded devices
• PersonalJavaTM - API for network-connectable
  applications on personal
• consumer devices

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Enterprise API's

• Enterprise JavaBeansTM -
• reusable, cross-platform components architecture
  
• Java Naming and Directory InterfaceTM (JNDI) -
  provides applications written in the Java
  programming language with a unified interface to
  multiple naming and directory services in the
  enterprise
• Java Message Service (JMS) - provides a common
  way for programmers writing in the Java
  programming language to access enterprise
  messaging systems
• Java Transaction API (JTA) - defines a high-level
  transaction management specification intended for
  resource managers and transactional applications
  in distributed transaction systems
• InfoBus - enables dynamic exchange of data
  between JavaBeansTM components

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Graphics

• Java 2DTM API - set of classes for advanced 2D
  graphics and imaging
• Java 3DTM API - set of classes for writing
  three-dimensional graphics applications and 3D
  applets

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Books on C

• Effective C, More Effective C
• By Scott Meyers
• Outstanding, fun tricks tips on programming
  in C
• Mastering Object-oriented programming in C
• By Cay Horstmann
• Very good OOP book, good examples and issues

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STL

• STL tutorial and reference
• By Musser Saini
• Good (if not the only one) book on Standard
  template library (precursor of generic
  Collections in Java)

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Books on Java

• I would recommend entire O'reilly series
  Threads, Swing, JDBC, etc.
• Their books are always nicely written with
  lots of examples and not too
• many stupid Hello-world-applet-in-the-browser!!
  ! pictures.

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General books

• Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It is
  one of the most unbelievable, breathtaking and
  ingenious books written in this century. I can't
  tell you whatis it about. For two reasons
• 1) it would spoil all the fun
• 2) I have no idea )

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General books

• Complexity by Mitchell Walldrop would bring you
  up to date on complex
• adaptive systems, Santa Fe institute and all
  eye-opening discoveries that have been made in
  the study of complexity in the last 3 decades.

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General books

• If you haven't read
• Richard Dawking 'Blind watchmaker'
• and interested in contemporary Darwinism, please
  do so. It is simple and fascinating.

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General books

• Finally, if you feel courageous to face some of
  the most amazing discoveries
• about human mind, I would recommend
• The User Illusion by Tor Norretrandes.