CS 341 User Interfaces

Syllabus Schedule Resources

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Programming Resources

1. X Windows/Xlib
   • X Windows Overiew from the University of Cambridge.
   • Beginner Xlib Tutorial: the index of functions page is especially handy.
   • Xlib -- C language X Interface.
   • Basic Graphics Programming with the Xlib Library: Part I and Part II .
2. Java
   • The main resource for Java programmers is the SE Platform API reference (SE 7, Java 1.7)
   • The Java Tutorials provides broad and detailed information an many Java concepts.
3. Processing
   • Processing Website
   • Image Tutorial

Articles and Chapters

Java GUI (including MVC), 2D Graphics and Events

• Introduction to GUI Programming in Introduction to Programming Using Java (Online Textbook).
• Painting in AWT and Swing -- Good Painting Code Is the Key to App Performance by Amy Fowler.
• A Swing Architecture Overview -- The Inside Story on JFC Component Design by Amy Fowler.
• Java Tutorials of interest
  • The Event Dispatch Thread
  • Custom Painting
• Swing threads.
• Multithreaded toolkits: A failed dream? by Graham Hamilton.

Other topics

• Color Models

Books

• Filthy Rich Clients -- Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications.

The following books are available from MHC library.

Visual design

• The visual display of quantitative information by Edward R. Tufte.
• Envisioning information by Edward R. Tufte.