DIS 2 Syllabus (Bonn)

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 Thorsten Karrer!
July 2: The final exam takes place in the Marschallsaal on Thu, 12.07.2007, 10:00-11:00.
May 23: You can work with your old partner for assignment 6.
The midterm takes place in seminar room 2.1 on May 16, 10:00-11:00.
Mar 20: Please note that there is no lecture on the 29th of May!
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 will be subject to changes (this might true for the exam dates, too!).

Teaching Schedule

Date	Topic	Lecture Notes	Video Recordings (Right click and save)	Required Reading	Recommended Reading
03.04.07	Introduction, Taxonomy of Input Devices	1 up, 4 up	Video	Input devices (Card)	Labs intro
10.04.07	Window Systems Architecture, Graphics Event Library	1 up, 4 up	Video	Window System Architecture (Gosling)	none
17.04.07	Base Window System	1 up, 4 up	see AC	none	none
24.04.07	Window Manager, User Interface Toolkit Layer	1 up, 4 up	see AC	none	none
08.05.07	Smalltalk, MVC, Macintosh Toolbox	1 up, 4 up	see AC	Smalltalk-80 user manual, Morphic User Interface (Maloney), Squeak pp. 20-35 (Maloney)	none
15.05.07	no lecture/lab because of midterm
16.05.07	Midterm Exam, 10:00 - 11:00, seminar room 2.1	Grades for the Midterm You can have a look at your exam during the next lab.
22.05.07	X Window System, OSF/Motif	1 up, 4 up	see AC	The X Window System (Scheifler)	none
29.05.07	no lecture/lab - Exkursionswoche in AC
05.06.07	Mac OS X	1 up, 4 up	see AC	none	none
12.06.07	Windows (and Stever Ballmer videos)	1 up, 4 up	see AC	none	none
19.06.07	Web 2.0	1 up, 4 up	Video	What is Web 2.0, Emotionally-centered Design	none
26.06.07	Java AWT, Swing	1 up, 4 up	see AC	none	none
03.07.07	Interactive Multimedia: Audio Input and Output, Visual Output, Displays & Course Evaluation	1 up, 4 up	see AC	Sonic Finder (Gaver), ARKola (Gaver)	none
10.07.07	no lecture/lab because of final exam
12.07.07	Final Exam, Marschallsaal, 10:00-11:00	Grades for the Final (:arrow:) You can have a look at your exam on Wednesday, Jul 18th, 10am 12am in room 2010 (AC).

Assignments

Assignment No.	Topic	Materials	Due Date
1	Hello GUI	none	17.04.07
2	Input Devices, Relatively Speaking	Input device data	24.04.07
3	In Deep GEL	GEL java class	07.05.07
4	Windows (not the Microsoft kind)	none	15.05.07
5	I Manage Windows	none	22.05.07
6	The X Factor	xmtutor-1.3c.tar.gz, motif_sample.tar.gz	05.06.07
7	X²	samplecode.zip	12.06.07
8	BUT: Basic User Interface Toolkit	none	26.06.07
9	GWT: Google Web Toolkit	to appear	10.07.07

Examinations

Midterm Exam: May 16, 10:00-11:00, seminar room 2.1
Final Exam: July 12, 10:00-11:00, Marschallsaal

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, lab exercises and exams. You will receive a schein upon successful completion of the course with a grade. The grade will be calculated as follows:

25% - lab exercises, assignments
25% - midterm exam
50% - final exam

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

Assignments and Lab Exercises

Assignments/lab exercises will be assigned weekly. They are to be completed in groups of 2 or 3. If you do not complete the lab exercise during the scheduled lab section, you must complete it on your own time and submit it the following week together with the assignment for that week. Lab exercises and 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 new Mac lab in the B-IT building, 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.