CSC360: Syllabus

We will use Piazza for discussion:

https://piazza.com/depaul/spring2016/csc360/home

You must subscribe to the course discussion forum on google groups. Do it as soon as possible.

There are separate forums for the CSC300 and CSC402

http://groups.google.com/group/csc360spring2016

• Don't troll.
• If your reply is intended for one person, please use Reply rather than Reply All.
• Please don't send thank you messages to the group.

The discussion forum is an extension our time in class. This is particularly great for students that miss the live lecture. If you are watching the class online, you should write down any questions that arise, including the time from the recording for reference. Then send the list of questions to me, and I will post a reply to the group.

I will also use Teamviewer for communication. With teamviewer, you can show me your computer screen while we talk over the phone.

Fundamentals of design and implementation for graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Students design a GUI-based application following the user-centered design process and implement it using the Model-View-Controller architecture. Topics include usability engineering, event dispatching, multi-threaded programming, GUI widget toolkits, frameworks and customization.

• User-centered design process
• UI principles: responsiveness, accessibility, etc
• Patterns: MV*, event-driven programming, reactive programming, immutabile programming, restful web servives
• Technologies: Languages (html/css/javascript/typescript), Frameworks (Angular2/React), Libraries (D3/etc), Services (twitter/amazon/facebook/city of chicago/etc)
• Tools: Build toold (Node/npm), Interactive Debugging (Chrome/Firefox), Editors (Atom/Sublime Text/Visual Studio Code)
• Major coding project

The following lecture plan is tentative and subject to change as the course progresses.

• Class 1: [2016/03/29-31] Introduction: HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Class 2: [2016/04/05-07] Angular2 and Typescript basics
• Class 3: [2016/04/12-14] Angular2 and widget libraries
• Class 4: [2016/04/19-21] UX
• Class 5: [2016/04/26-28] API calls, Forms and validation
• Class 6: [2016/05/03-05] Streams
• Class 7: [2016/05/10-12] Data visualization
• Class 8: [2016/05/17-19] Test frameworks
• Class 9: [2016/05/24-26] Screen scrapers and other tricks
• Class 10: [2016/05/31-02] Project Presentations
• Class 11: [2016/06/07-09] No Final Exam

Lecture slides will be available after each lecture. They will not normally be available before the lecture.

Hard prereq: CSC301

Recommended: SE350 (patterns), CSC376 (distributed systems), CSC347 (programming languages).

Get the first required book now. Wait a little for the rest.

Required Books

Beginning AngularJS [Amazon, AddAll] by Andrew Grant (Apress, 2014) Ebook recommended

More Books

Designed for Use: Create Usable Interfaces for Applications and the Web [Amazon, AddAll] by Lukas Mathis (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011) Ebook recommended

Even More Books

Head First HTML5 Programming: Building Web Apps with JavaScript [Amazon, AddAll] by Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson (O'Reilly, 2011) Ebook available

We will discuss concepts in class.

You will perform design and programming assignments.

You will need to be able to go through APIs without my instruction.

• You do not have to do it alone, but you must be self-motivated.
• You can ask me and other members of the class.
• You must start assignments early.

You must attend class!

Quizzes will most often be given at the beginning of class -- so show up on time.

Grades will be computed from the following:

• Quizzes and homeworks: 40%
• Final project: 60%

DePaul's academic integrity policy

I will drop two lowest quizzes/homeworks.