CMPSCI 677
University of Massachusetts

• Introductory concepts
• Introduction to Operating Systems [cs377]
• C Frequently Asked Questions
• An Introduction to Programming with Threads
• C++ Overview


• Books on reserve in the Physical Sciences Library -- for CMPSCI 377
  
• Silberschatz and Galvin, Operating System Concepts
• Peterson and Silberschatz, 1994, Modern Operating Systems
• Tanenbaum, 1992, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation


• Other books :
  
• W.Richard Stevens,Unix Network Programing: Networking API's: Sockets and XTI -- 2nd edition. ISBN 0-13-490012-X Chapter 23, Threads Chapter 27: Client-Server Design Alternatives


• Video tapes :
  Video tapes of the lectures are on reserve in the Physical Sciences Library.



• Lectures on the Web :
  Recordings of the Spring '98 CS677 lectures can be seen with your web browser.
• Material on Sockets, RPC, RMI
  
• Unix Network Programming, Jim Kurose, NTU Short Course May 1996
  
• Programming with ONC RPC Documentation on Sun RPC on Digital Unix 4.0.
• RMI, Introduction to Remote Method Invocation
• Introduction to Java RMI


• Material on Threads
  
• Introduction to Programming Threads
  
• A Bibliography on Code Migration, the first paper is a good read.


• References on Java
  
The place to start : Java Home Page

The Language itself : Java Language Specification

More online books : The Java Series

One great book : Thinking in Java