LaTeX

• The TeX Showcase - Check out the power of LaTeX!
• Getting started with LaTeX
• Hypertext help with LaTeX
• Essential LaTeX Guide
• A Not-so-short Introduction to LaTeX
• Help on LaTeX commands
• BibTeX Tutorial (source: http://www.ntg.nl/bijeen/pdf-s.20031113/BibTeX-tutorial.pdf)
• A few LaTeX tricks

Good writing style

• The Elements of Style (web version), by Strunk, William, Jr.
• Guide to Grammar and Style, by Jack Lynch
• Common Mistakes in English
• Especially for Students (links)

MATLAB

• Getting Started
• MATLAB Primer
• Good MATLAB Programming Practices
• MATLAB tips and tricks
• MATLAB Compiler
• MATLAB quick reference (Broken Link)
• Marios Athineos' tips and tricks page (Broken Link)

Java

Tools

Java 2 Standard Edition Developers Toolkit

You'll need this to do anything.

Eclipse

The best IDE out there, especially for the price (free). Netbeans is getting better, though.

JFreeChart

A free chart/plot tool in Java. I haven't used it, but it seems to be popular.

Jakarta Tomcat

If you want to do any server-side Java, Tomcat is a great, free application server.

Books

Thinking in Java

I've read this cover-to-cover. Good content and actually well written! It is, however, more geared toward server-side Java for web apps.

Wicked Cool Java

A new book reviewed by Slashdot. I (Greg) just bought a copy. It's in the tech lab, if you want to take a look at it.

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications (2nd Edition)

I haven't read this myself, but I've certainly seen it on nearly every Java engineer's desk. It's written by Grady Booch, who is considered the father of OOD.

Object-Oriented Data Structures Using Java

Not the greatest book, but I (Greg) have it in my office, if you want to take a look.

Design Patterns

This is also in Greg's office. Good for once you've had an overview of OOD.

Java In a Nutshell

Once you're ready to tackle Java more in-depth.

Key day-to-day references

J2SE API

All the standard data structures and utilities to get you started.

Java specification

Very useful when you want to know, e.g., what it means for a method to be "public static final".

Apache Jakarta

This is the open-source Java group at Apache. Lots of great projects, mainly for web/application server use, but there are some good general purpose applications. I highly recommend Ant for build automation and everything in "Commons", but take a look around! Especially note that they now have a math and stats package.

KickJava

It has searchable and browsable pages on everything from JDK APIs to proper usage and examples.

Programming

• Programming Texts and Tutorials
• Math Tools
• Code Guru
• Code Project

Software (BU software distribution center)

• Mathematica, MATLAB and S-PLUS
• PS to PDF distiller
• Create PDF for free

Search engines for articles

• Jstor
• Mathscinet
• PubMed
• IEEE Xplore
• ACM Portal
• arXiv.org e-Print archive
• CiteSeer
• Web of Science
• Inspec (BU access, OCLC number search)
• Ingenta
• ScienceDirect
• Computer Science Bibliographies

Search engines for libraries, books, publications, etc.

• FirstSearch (BU access)
• Library of Congress
• UMI dissertations
• Libweb
• LibDex

BU-specific resources

• BU Interlibrary Loans
• BU SEL storage request
• BU Virtual Catalog
• BU Electronic Resources
• BU Electronic Resources by Subject