Graphical user interfaces

(Graafisten käyttöliittymien toteutus, 5 op/3 ov)
Address: http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/sjuva/gui.html

Last two weeks (.NET -part) of the course are shown here

Page contents

• Official course description
• Tentative contents
• Schedule
• Grading
• Literature
• WWW-links
• Tools
• Exercises
• Examples
• Mail-list

• laudatur -level elective course
• Graafisten käyttäliittymien periaatteet sekä niiden suunnittelu- ja ohjelmointimenetelmät. Eritasoiset työkalut ja apuvälineet.
  Prerequisites: Java programming

Design of graphical user interfaces is a subject of another course.

Subjects

• An introduction to graphical user interfaces
  • What, Why, How
  • Examples
  • Benefits, drawbacks
  • A short introduction to design guidelines.
• Basic tehniques, background
  • Event/action/signal -based programming (vs. traditional procudural/OO programming)
  • Widgets of all kinds
  • Drag and Drop
  • Handling images
  • Concurrency in user interfaces
  • Windowing systems
• Tools
  • Swing (JavaSE), NetBeans IDE
  • PyGTK
  • JavaME
  • .NET

• 22.10.2007 -- 11.12.2007
  Mon, Tue 14-16 T/2D106

• 26.10.2007 -- 14.12.2007
  • Group 1: Fri 10-12 T/B179 (in English)
  • Group 2: Fri 12-14 T/B179 (in Finnish)

• Wed 12.12. 08.00 - 10.00 at M3
  • Results (only joensuu.fi)

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General exams

• X-exercises have to be made&passed before participating.
• Contact me to enroll.
• First date would be Feb 22nd 2008, please contact me to sign in.

Exercises

• Traditional
  • Make beforehand, mark as done at the beginning, present when requested.
  • It is not possible to get marks without participating the class.
  • Most (if not all) have to be done using computer, compiled, will be presented using data projector.
  • At least 1/2 has to be done.
• Obligatory X-exercises
  • 5 (on each key subject)
  • Will be graded (coarsely)
  • Missing (not submitted) will be graded negatively
  • Has to be submitted by email on previous day, lateness will reduce a point.
  • A unique solution for every student (co-operation is allowed, but the same answer from two or more students is not)
  • Automated processing and comparison, strict submitting rules
  • Not counted as traditional exercises when calculating the 1/2 rule.

• X-exercises: ~50%
• Intermediate exams: ~50%
• Extra points for making more than 1/2 of standard exercises (up to xx% of maximum).
  ((n-N/3)/(2N/3))*(max/xx) N is # of std ex, n is # of your marks).
• No roundings.

• Lecture hand-outs (partial)
  • 3 euros for the whole course, please have exact sum handy at the first lecture
  • Part 1 22.10., pages 1-11.
  • Part 2 30.10., pages 13-19.
  • Part 3 6.11., pages 20-23.
  • Part 4 12.11., pages 25-33.
  • Part 5 19.11., pages 33-39.
  • Part 6 26.11., pages 41-48.

• Java 6 API
• Java tutorial UI trail
• Python
• PyGTK
• TkInter
• JDK & NetBeans download
• .NET -links

• Exercise 1, 26.10.2007
• Exercise 2, 2.11.2007
• Exercise 3, 9.11.2007
• Exercise 4, 16.11.2007
• Exercise 5, 23.11.2007
• Exercise 6, 30.11.2007
• Exercises 7-8, 7,14.12.2007