CSC 360

Spring 2015

Craig Miller

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Assignments

• Programming Assignment 1
• Team Project 1
• Programming Assignment 2
• Team Project 2
• Team Project 3
• Team Project 4

Technical References

• Mozilla Technical Documents
• HTML Tag Reference
• CSS Property Reference
• JavaScript Guide
• jQuery API

CSC 360 User Interface Architecture and Development

Course Overview

Students design an interactive 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.

Course Goals

By the end of the quarter, students will be able to:

• Apply user-centered design methods including those for user research, wireframing and usability evaluation.
• Develop interactive user interfaces.
• Program in JavaScript using the jQuery framework.
• Effectively employ event-driven programming for handing user interactions.
• Develop applications applying the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture.
• Use references to learn how to implement new widgets, user events, programming constructs.

Tentative Assignments and Projects

• Two small programming projects (individual projects). Program in JavaScript and jQuery to develop two applications.
• User research (team project). Synthesize interviews with prospective users.
• Wireframing (team project). Develop wireframes that document how users interact with your design.
• Evaluation (team project). Conduct usability tests for identifying problems and revising your design.
• Implementation (team project). Develop the user interface of your app using JavaScript and jQuery.