DIS 2 Syllabus (Aachen)

Course schedule is tentative and subject to change. Links to lecture notes and assignments will be posted as the semester progresses.
Note: You must be registered with the class to download the lecture notes and assignments.

Announcements

• Jul 19: The date for the second chance final exam is Jul 26, 10am - room 2010. (:exclaim:) If you want to take the exam please register by writing an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.!
• May 23: You can work with your old partner for assignment 6.
• The midterm takes place in room 2010 on May 16, 10:00-11:00.
• Apr 16: If you are looking for last year's DIS2 videos please make sure to check s-inf!
• Mar 14: Please register for the DIS2 course and lab! Do it now... or at least before April 10th. We will not be able to accept any assignment submissions or written exam papers from unregistered students.
• Mar 12: Welcome to this year's DIS2 course! (:cool:) The teaching schedule is still preliminary and may be subject to changes (this is true for the exam dates, too!).

Teaching Schedule

Date	Topic	Lecture Notes	Video Recordings (Right click and save)	Required Reading	Recommended Reading
04.04.07	Introduction, Taxonomy of Input Devices	1 up, 4 up	video	Input devices (Card)	Labs intro
05.04.07	Window Systems Architecture, Graphics Event Library	1 up, 4 up	video	Window System Architecture (Gosling)	none
11.04.07	Base Window System	1 up, 4 up	video	none	none
12.04.07	Window Manager	1 up, 4 up	video	none	none
18.04.07	User Interface Toolkit Layer, Smalltalk, MVC, Morphic	1 up, 4 up	preliminary video	Smalltalk-80 user manual, Morphic User Interface (Maloney)	none
19.04.07	Morphic cont., Macintosh Toolbox	1 up, 4 up	preliminary video	Squeak pp. 20-35 (Maloney), The X Window System (Scheifler)	none
25.04.07	X Window Systems	1 up, 4 up	video	none	none
26.04.07	X Window Systems cont., OSF/Motif, Tcl/Tk	1 up, 4 up, 1 up, 4 up	video	none	none
02.05.2007	no classes, no lab on 30.04.2007	none
03.05.2007	no classes
09.05.07	Qt, Java	1 up, 4 up	video	none	none
10.05.07	Windows (and Stever Ballmer videos)	1 up, 4 up	video	none	none
16.05.07	Midterm Exam	Grades for the Midterm (:arrow:) You can have a look at your exam during the next lab.
23.05.07	Mac OS X, Part I	1 up, 4 up	no video	none	none
24.05.07	Mac OS X, Part II	1 up, 4 up	video	none	none
06.06.07	Web 2.0	1 up, 4 up	new video	What is Web 2.0, Emotionally-centered Design	none
07.06.07	no classes, public holiday
13.06.07	no classes, DIES
14.06.07	subArctic, ARToolkit	1 up, 4 up	video	Extensible Input Handling in the subArctic Toolkit (Hudson)	none
20.06.07	MAX/MSP	1 up, 4 up	video	none	none
21.06.07	Interactive Multimedia: Audio Output	1 up, 4 up	video	Sonic Finder (Gaver), ARKola (Gaver)	none
27.06.07	Interactive Multimedia: Audio and Speech Input	1 up, 4 up	video (557 MB)	none	none
28.06.07	Interactive Multimedia: Displays, Video Input and Output	1 up, 4 up	video (535 MB)	none	none
04.07.07	Symbian, Haptics	1 up, 4 up	video	none	none
05.07.07	Looking Forward & Course Evaluation	to appear	video	none	none
11.07.07	Final Project Presentations	to appear	to appear	none	none
12.07.07	Final Exam	Grades for the Final (:arrow:) You can have a look at your exam on Wednesday, Jul 18th, 10am 12am in room 2010 (AC).
26.07.07	Final Exam - 2nd chance	Grades for the second chance Final

Assignments

Assignment No.	Topic	Materials	Due Date
1	Hello GUI	none	16.04.07
2	Input Devices, Relatively Speaking	Input device data	23.04.07
3	Windows (not the Microsoft kind)	GEL java class	07.05.07
4	Now You See Me, Now You Don’t	none	14.05.07
5	RAT: Really Awesome Toolkit	none	21.05.07
6	The X Factor	xmtutor-1.3c.tar.gz, motif_sample.tar.gz	04.06.07
7	X²	samplecode.zip	11.06.07
8	Project proposal	none	18.06.07

Examinations

• May 16: Midterm Exam (cf. announcements)
• Jul 12: Final Exam (cf. announcements)

Important: Please note the date of the midterm exam and final exam. In the event that you cannot make it on those dates, it is your responsibility to notify us by May 1 for the midterm exam and by Jul 1 for the final exam, or you will receive a grade of zero.

Grading Policy

If you wish to take the course for credit, you must complete all assignments and exams. You will receive a schein upon successful completion of the course with a grade. The grade will be calculated as follows:

• 20% - lab exercises, assignments
• 20% - project
• 25% - midterm exam
• 35% - final exam

Note that you must achieve a cumulative score above 4.0 and pass the final exam to pass the course.

Assignments

Assignments will be assigned weekly. They are to be completed in groups of 2 or 3. Assignments will be graded on the following scale:

• 1.0 - exceptional work that clearly went above and beyond what was given on the exercise
• 2.0 - exercise was completed satisfactorily as per the assignment specification
• 3.0 - exercise was completed, but has some problems
• 4.0 - incomplete exercise
• 5.0 - little or no effort was put into the exercise

The assignments are designed to be completed in the Media Computing Lab in 2U13, consisting of Apple PowerMac G5 machines. However, many of the tools we will be using are cross-platform you are welcome to complete the assignment on your platform of choice. However, it will be your responsibility to ensure your program(s) run on the machines in the lab. Programs that do not run correctly on the lab machines will be graded as incomplete. We will be able to provide technical support for the lab machines only. Please note that submissions with a written component that do not meet the basic standards of university-level English will not be graded (example).__ They will be returned to you, and you will have the option of resubmitting the assignment with the usual late penalty.

Late Policy

Late assignments will be graded with a penalty of 0.5 per 24 hour period after the due date. Exceptions will be granted only for valid (i.e. medical) reasons.