Course Information:

Lecture/Lab:	Wed 2:00 - 3:50, AVW-1366
Discussion:	Fri 11:00 - 12:15, CSI-3118
Twitter tracking via #Hashtags:	http://hashtags.org/tag/enee459j
Mailing List:	enee459j-0101-spr09@coursemail.umd.edu
Required Texts:	Hackers & Painters, by Paul Graham
	The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick Brooks, Jr.

Instructor Information:

Professor:	Bruce L. Jacob, Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Office:	1325 A.V. Williams Building
Phone:	(301) 405-0432
Email:
Office Hours:	Open door policy (for now ...)

TAs:	Joseph Gross Paul Rosenfeld
Email:	joegross@umd.edu prosenf1@umd.edu

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Course Handouts and General Information:

• Syllabus.pdf
• Essays from Paul Graham's Hackers & Painters can be found at his website (www.paulgraham.com). Table of contents of the book:
  • Why nerds are unpopular
  • Hackers and painters
  • What you can't say
  • Good bad attitude
  • The other road ahead
  • How to make wealth
  • Mind the gap
  • A plan for spam
  • Taste for makers
  • Programming languages explained
  • The hundred-year language
  • Beating the averages
  • Revenge of the nerds
  • The dream language
  • Design and research

Links:

• Minty MP3 player
• Active matrix OLED with touchscreen
• PCB cost calculator (very cool)
• Linux touch-screen how-to
• an Eagle how-to for filling in ground & power planes
• excellent SMT primer