hi there.

general class resources:
check out the syllabus!
download max/msp (or just use it in the labs).

some books you might want to check out:
The Computer Music Tutorial, by Curtis Roads.
Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, by Charles Dodge and Thomas Jerse.
Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Application, by Perry Cook.
Musimathics, Volume 1: The Mathematical Foundations of Music, by Gareth Loy.
Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, edited by Brandon LaBelle.

class patches:
Class 1: All those boxes and wires. Basic synthesis.
Class 2: Synths and samplers.
Read Brandon LaBelle's first chapter from Background Noise.
Read the first chapter of Susan Sontags's On Photography (1977).
Class 4: Introduction to RTcmix.
Class 5: The magnificent Elliott Sharp.
Class 6: Fun with Markov chains.
Class 7: The amazing Todd Reynolds.
Class 8: Time-domain signal processing.
Class 9: Sound analysis. Sound to image.
Class 10: Wii and computer vision and physical models and stuff.