Fall 2006
- Note
- This page is maintained as an archival record of the course shown above, and as such, some links on this page may no longer be valid nor accessible. They are kept here as a record of the resources that were available at the time of the course offering.
All materials are in PDF. Sorry, you won’t find source code or solutions here; contact me directly for those.
- Announcements
- 20061107: Due to a university commitment that has come up, there will be no regularly-scheduled office hours on Thursday 1109.
20061026: As discussed in class, the midterm has been moved to 1010 instead of 1005. Coverage will now include more material on Java Swing’s event model.
Handouts
- 0829: Interaction Design Overview
- 0905: Java Swing Startup, Using GridBagLayout
- 0912: Interaction Design Guidelines
- 0914: Interaction Design Principles
- 0919: Interaction Design Theories
- 0928: The Java Event Model, MVC Sample
- 1003: Midterm Review Sheet
- 1012: Higher-Order Swing Components
- 1019: Externalizing Resources, Menus, Forms, and Dialogs
- 1026: Actions and Dialogs in Swing
- 1102: Direct Manipulation
- 1109: Custom Swing Components
- 1114: Drag-and-Drop, Buttons sample code (168K .zip)
- 1116: Swing Implementation Issues
- 1121: XHTML Rules of Thumb, The Tags That Bind
- 1128: Command and Natural Language Interaction, Input and Output Devices, Collaboration
- 1130: OpenGL Quick Start, Animation Quick Start, OpenGL on floyd
- 1207: Final Review Sheet
Related External Links
These links take you to Web sites beyond this server. The sites are in no particular order or bias, just “as they came to mind.”
- Tools
- The CVS home page
- Wikipedia: A good starting point for virtually any concept lookup
- Bad Human Factors Designs: a “daily WTF” for interaction design
- And of course, the original Daily WTF has its share of interaction design fiascos (among others)
- “Guru” Web sites
- Jakob Nielsen: useit.com
- Don Norman: jnd.org
- Jef Raskin (1943-2005): jefraskin.com
- Bruce Tognazzini: asktog.com
- Edward Tufte: edwardtufte.com
- Swing resources
- The Swing Connection
- The official Java Swing Tutorial
- The Swing Introduction to Drag-and-Drop and Data Transfer
- OpenGL/GLUT resources
- The JOGL home page
- Sun’s Core Java Technologies Tech Tip on JOGL
- Chris Adamson’s article on Jumping into JOGL
- Web design resources
- W3 Schools: Nice try-it-yourself feature here
- The HTMLHelp.com
- The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C): The ultimate authority, but may be too much for a beginner
- A simple CSS tutorial “from the ground up” from Web Page Design for Designers
- CSS notes from Prof. Ray Toal’s Internet technologies course
- The Web Developer Extension home page: Extremely useful, and free!
- Published design guidelines
- Research projects and prototypes
- The Croquet project
- Project Looking Glass: Sun Microsystems Web site, open source Web site
