[While these resources can enhance your learning experience, please note that they are non-examinable unless specifically stated otherwise]
Resources  

Java resources

Our own:

• Creating your first Java project on Eclipse IDE (slides) (demo)
  

• Debugging in Eclipse IDE (slides)  (demo)
• GUI programming in Eclipse (slides)(demo)
  

External:

• Documentation of the Java standard library
• [eBook] Thinking In Java  (free online book by Bruce Eckel)
• [Book] Understanding Object-Oriented Programming in Java - Timothy Budd
• Implementing inheritance (from Sun's Java tutorial)
• Implementing interfaces (from Sun's Java tutorial)
  

C++ resources

Our own:

• Creating your first C++ project in the VisualStudio 2008 (slides) (demo)
  

• Debugging in VisualStudio 2008 (slides) (demo)
  
• GUI programming in VisualStudio 2008 (slides)(demo)
  
• You can use the ELMS system to download Visual Studio 2008 for free.
  

External:

• [eBook] Thinking in C++ (free online book by Bruce Eckel) 
• Implementing inheritance in C++ (from Cplusplus.com)

UML resources

• [Book] UML Distilled, by Martin Fowler - A concise, yet a very good book on UML.
• [Diagramming tool] Microsoft Visio 2007 - You can use the ELMS system to download it.
  

Supplementary text books

[You are not *required* to buy any of these. The list is just an indication of where to look if you want to read beyond the course material provided by us]

Software Engineering

• Software Engineering: An object-oriented Approach ; Bimlesh Wadhwa, Stefan Andrei, SooYuen Jien. McGraw Hill, Revised Edition, 2007.
• Practical Object-Oriented Design With UML ; Mark Priestley, McGraw Hill, 2ndEdition, 2004.
• Object-Oriented Software Engineering: Practical Software Development using UML and Java , Timothy C. Lethbridge and Robert Laganière, McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition , 2001.

Other topics

• Tips to Succeed in Software Engineering Student Project (free eBook); Damith C. Rajapakse
  
• Applying UML and Patterns; Craig Larman, Pearson –Prentice Hall, 3rd Edition 2005.
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software; E Gamma, R Helm, R Johnson & J Vlissides, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

More examples

• Computer store domain model [Covers: domain models]
• Modifying Minesweeper artifacts to add "Timing" feature [Covers: Most techniques for documenting requirements]
  

Sample project artifacts

• Architecture diagrams: [a sample from Sun] [a sample from Microsoft][a sample from IBM]

Useful tools

• Freemind - a free mind mapping tools

Interesting links

• Reducing coupling - an article by Martin Fowler (Martin Fowler is a SE practitioner and a author of several popular SE-related books)
  
• Nine software disasters caused by bugs
• A demo of how to make a modification to Mozilla browser, prepared by our SoC student Gary Kwong.
• Famous (and some infamous) quotes related to Software Engineering
• The (fabled) king's toaster - a story
• Design Patterns 15 Years Later: An Interview with Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, and Ralph Johnson - A good follow up reading after the lecture on "Frameworks, Patterns, Processes, and Principles".