Announcements are listed here in reverse chronological order and will
also be made in the newsgroup. The purpose of this page is to extract the
important announcements from the clutter of the newsgroup.
| Date |
Announcement |
| 2006-04-05 |
Additional Final Exam details:
- The exam covers lecture content and assignment content.
- Relevant chapters from the Course Notes include Interfaces
Constructed from Components, Interfaces with Dynamic Layout,
Formal Descriptions of User Interfaces, and Direct Manipulation
Interfaces. Read them to review or reinforce lecture content.
- There are no practice questions/problems available except for
the exercises in the Course Notes. Note, however, that these questions/problems
cover the content of the notes while the exam covers the contents of the
lectures. Sometimes they overlap significantly, sometimes they do not.
|
| 2006-04-04 |
Final Exam details:
- Coverage: material from 2006-Feb-06 forward, including the
guest lectures and the summary of internationalization.
- Seats will be assigned. Use
this
link to find your seat assignment before you come to the exam.
- There are 85 marks available on the exam. They break down as
follows:
- Multiple Choice: 10 marks
- Short written answer: 27 marks
- Programming/pseudocode: 26 marks
- Non-programming formalisms: 22 marks
- One of the programming problems will make use of the
java.util.Timer class. Understanding this sample program
is sufficient for the purposes of the exam.
|
| 2006-02-15 |
The final exam is scheduled for Tuesday, April 11, from 16:00 -
18:30 in PAC sections 3 and 6. |
| 2006-02-06 |
- The GUI chapter from my textbook is now available from the
resources page. It has considerably more detail than the course notes.
- Seats will be assigned. Click
this
link to find your room and seat assignment.
|
| 2006-02-05 |
Assignment 2 has been released. Please note the due date is
slightly changed and that it is due in class and you must
attend. |
| 2006-02-01 |
Midterm Exam info:
- Date: Thursday, Feb 9, 7-9pm
- Place: MC 4045/4059/4061
- Coverage:
- Xlib-style programming as you've learned on assignment 1.
If required, you will be provided with procedure names and parameter
lists.
- Lecture content from the beginning of term through the end
of the lecture on 2/3/06 (Friday).
- Readings from the text will not be covered except to the
degree that they overlap lecture content.
- Aids: Calculators
- Seats will be assigned. Click
this
link to find your room and seat assignment.
|
| 2006-01-11 |
- The course text, An Introduction to User Interfaces for
Computer Science Students is finally available at Pixel Planet
(MC2018).
- Office hour info has changed. See the
syllabus.
|
| 2006-01-05 |
No tutorials until further notice. |
| 2005-12-23 |
Welcome to the CS349|CS382 web site.
The primary textbook for
the course will be available from Pixel Planet towards the end of the first
week of classes. |
