CS-335

GRAPHICS, MULTIMEDIA AND USER-INTERFACE DESIGN
Spring 1999
TR 12:30 - 1:45pm (CB 303)

Professor:: Dr. Fuhua (Frank) Cheng; 763B Anderson Hall; Phone: 257-6760; Email: cheng@cs.engr.uky.edu; URL: http://www.cs.engr.uky.edu/~cheng/

Office Hours:

Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 - 3:00 pm and by appointment

Lab:

Computer Science Multilab (or CSLab)

Location: 203 EE Annex, 257-5256

Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30am - 8:30pm

Text:

JAVA HOW TO PROGRAM, second edition

Authors: H. Deitel & P. Deitel

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

ISBN: 0-13-899394-7

Supplementary Text:

Computer Graphics: C version, second edition

Authors: Donald Hearn and Pauline Baker

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

ISBN: 0-13-530924-7

Grading Policy:

Programming Assignments ----- 40%

Midterm ----- 15%

Final ----- 15% (optional)

Homework ----- 30%

* Programming assignments should be done in Java, on machines in

MultiLab or CSLab.

Late Penalty:

I will accept programs and homework up to 1 week late for a penalty

of 20%. Programs and homework more than one week late will not be

considered for a grade.

Scale:

88 -100 .... A

78 - 87 ..... B

68 - 77 ..... C

58 - 67 ..... D

0 - 57 ....... E

Course Description:

This course focuses on the graphical human-machine interface,

covering the principles of windowing systems, graphical interface

design and implementation, and processing graphical data.

There is an emphasis on medium-scale programming projects with graphical

user interfaces using a object-oriented, procedural programming language

such as Java.

Course Contents:

Subjects	Topics covered
1. Object-Oriented Programming Using Java::	object-oriented concepts - a tour, objects,
	applets, control structures, methods,
	arrays, object-based programming,
	object-oriented programming, strings
2. 2D Graphics Techniques::	graphics systems,
	2D Graphics primitives, 2D transformations,
	rendering and scan-conversion, curves,
	polygon primitives, smooth regions
	(circles and ellipses)
3. User Interface Design::	basic concepts, event handling, layout
	management, graphics algorithms and
	toolkits, UGI design, managing text
	areas, canvases, costom components
4. Exception-Handling and Multithreading::	understanding, performing and using
	exception-handling, understanding and
	using multithreading
5. Multimedia::	image creation and display, image formats,
	simple animation, animation and threads,
	rendering and displaying, animated
	sequences, image maps

* Optional

Important Dates:

Midterm - 3/9/99 (Tuesday)

Last day to withdraw from a course - 3/12/99 (Friday)

Last day of classes - 4/30/99 (Friday)

Final Exam - 5/3/99 (Monday 8:00 am)