Literature

During the course we use a few chapters from Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne: Operating System Concepts. Most probably, you already have this book from IMADAs course on operating systems.

• [SGG7] Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne:
  Operating Systems Concepts
  7th edition.
  Wiley Text Books.
  ISBN: 978-0-471-69466-3

• Java tutorials about
  • Concurrency.
  • Networking. This covers sockets, UDP, TCP, multicast, etc.
  • RMI.
• Wikipedia entries about
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
  • ACID.
• Andy Wellings: Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Java. John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Chapter 6.
• Peter Welch: Wot! No chickens?, 1996.
• Abhijit Belapurkar: CSP for Java programmers. Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. IBM DeveloperWorks, 2005.

Extra C book

Note: This is not required reading, as you can pass the course using Java only.

Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie:
The C Programming Language

You can also use this online C course:
Online C course [Local mirror]

Other books

The following books also contain material which could be interesting to look at.

• Jeff Magee & Jeff Kramer: Concurrency: State Models & Java Programs. 2nd ed.
• Douglas Lea: Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Pattern. 2nd edition. A 3rd edition is available September 2007.
• Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, and Doug Lea: Java Concurrency in Practice. The book looks at concurrency from a very practical point of view.