Dat Tran - Programming Graphical User Interfaces

Programming Graphical User Interfaces PG (7110)

Semester 2, 2008

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1. General:

Unit Outline: General information, academic content, delivery of unit and timetable, unit resources, assessment, student responsibility, and authority of this unit outline
Unit Design: Student workload, generic skills, etc.
Consultation time: Tuesdays 12:30 – 1:30

2. Lectures

Tue 16:30 – 18:30 2B2
Week 1: Unit Outline, C# 2008 Programming for Graphical User Interfaces, Graphical User Interface Design
Week 2: Windows Forms, WPF and XAML
Week 3: Windows Forms Controls and WPF Controls
Week 4: Events and Event Handlers
Week 5: Custom Events and Custom Controls
Week 6: Data Validation, Data Binding, Data Set, and ADO.NET for Windows Forms Applications
Week 7: Data Validation, Data Binding, Data Set, and ADO.NET for WPF Applications
Week 8: class free period
Week 9: class free period
Week 10: Shapes, Pens, and Drawing 2D in Windows Form and WPF
Week 11: Brushes, Transforms, and Drawing3D in Windows Form and WPF
Week 12: Smart Devices, Word, Excel, and MS Agent
Week 13: LINQ
Week 14: Multithreaded User Interfaces, Web Services
Week 15: Review

3. Tutorials and Labs

C/01 Tue 15:30 – 16:30 11C45
C/02 Tue 18:30 – 19:30 11C45
Week 1: no labs and tutorials
Week 2: Windows Forms
Week 3: Custom Web Browser and Image Editor, AForgeDLL file
Week 4: Common Events, Drag and Drop Events
Week 5: Tabbed Web Browser, WPF Pages, WPF Controls and Event Handlers
Week 6: Assignment 1 Hints for Custom Web Browser, and WPF Image Editor
Week 7: Assignment 1 Demonstration
Week 8: class free period
Week 9: class free period
Week 10: N-tier Architecture
Week 11: Drawing with Mouse in Windows Forms Application
Week 12: Drawing With Mouse in WPF Application
Week 13: Animations, Audio and Video in WPF Application
Week 14: Assignment 2 Help (in Computer Labs)
Week 15: Assignment 2 Demonstration Marking Scheme, Saving Graphics to File in WPF

4. Assignments:

5. Final Exam:

Session: 09:00 TUE 11 NOV 2008
Location: LECTURE RM 6B41
Duration: 3:00 hours
Permitted materials: Calculator - Non Programmable, Unannotated Non-Electronic Dictionary (English/Foreign), Notes-2 sides, 1A4 page (Handwritten or typed on both sides)

6. Reference Books:

· Pro WPF in C# 2008: Windows Presentation Foundation with .NET 3.5, Matthew MacDonald, Apress, 2008

· Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008, Joseph C. Rattz, Jr., Apress, 2008

· Windows Forms 2.0 Programming, Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-321-26796-6, 2006

7. Past Unit Websites: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

8. Past Exams: 2003, 2004, 2005 (Pages 1–10, Pages 11–13), 2006, 2007

9. Contact Information:

· Subject convener: Dat Tran, email: dat.tran@canberra.edu.au, phone: 6201 2394, Room: 11B17, Mailbox: 211

· Subject moderator: Dharmendra Sharma, dharmendra.sharma@canberra.edu.au, phone: 6201 2153, Room: 11B13.

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