COMP 445 - GUI Programming

Dr. Frank McCown
Science 207
3:00 - 4:15 MW
Fall 2014

Class links

• Syllabus
• A Plea for Integrity
• Easel
• Piazza
• Canvas (for quizzes)
• Class notes
• Writing Clean Code
• Microsoft Student Use Agreement
• How to access DreamSpark software
• Microsoft DreamSpark Resources

GUI Bloopers

• Presentation Schedule
• Presentation Grading Sheet
• Presentation Grading Sheet (Non-Bloopers)
• Blooper Examples

History

• McCown's History of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) (PowerPoint)
• Graphical User Interface Timeline
• A Brief History of User Interfaces
• GUI History and Screenshots (Harding only)
• Guidebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery

User Interface Guidelines

• Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines
• Checkboxes vs. Radio buttons
• Make great Metro style apps

.NET Programming

• .NET Book Zero: What the C or C++ Programmer Needs to Know About C# and the .NET Framework by Charles Petzold
• McCown's Introduction to .NET (PowerPoint)
• McCown's VB.NET and C# Comparison
• Creating a Screen Saver with C#
• Background Worker in .NET 2.0 GUI libraries

WPF

• Deitel's Windows Presentation Foundation Resource Center
• Christian Moser's WPF Tutorials
• Rob Eisenberg's WPF Tutorial
• MSDN Help
  • Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation
  • WPF Windows Overview
  • Dialog Boxes Overiew
• WindowsClient.NET

GUI References

• Effective Visual Communication for Graphical User Interfaces
• Model-View-Controller

GUI Bloopers 2.0 by Jeff Johnson (2008)
Required


C# 2012 for Programmers (5th Edition)
by Paul J. Deitel & Harvey M. Deitel
Recommended


Programming Windows Store Apps with C#
by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds and Iris Classon
Recommended