Organization
This course has emerged out of a human computer interaction and GUI development course, delivered to undergraduate compute science students from October 1996 to February 2001. The purpose of this course has been to familiarise students with the basic functionality of complex GUIs and how this may be implemented using the Java AWT (the course was later upgraded to Java Swing).The major design object that is explained step-by-step in this course is a drawing editor including and implementing basic editing functionality such as input, selection, clipboard, undo/redo etc., as well as advanced special purpose polygon operations such as vertex dragging and merging/splitting.
Subsequent versions of this online course will address more advanced interface issues, such as GUI classification, functional design, abstract manipulation of graphical elements, manipulation languages and many more.
Instructor
Elpida TZAFESTAS Senior Researcher Institute of Communication and Computer Systems National Technical University of Athens Zographou Campus 15773 Tel. +30-210-772 2489, +30-210-772 1527 Fax. +30-210-772 2490brensham@softlab.ece.ntua.gr
http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~brensham
Course material
Course notes, AWT version (.pdf, 452K, 117 pages)
Course notes, Swing version (.pdf, 382K, 117 pages)
Complete Java source code, AWT version (.zip, 484K)
Complete Java source code, Swing version (.zip, 482K)
Zipfile of the HTML hierarchy (3025K)
