Mon
Jan 17
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1. Course organization;
Why are user interfaces
important and hard to design and implement
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Required Readings:
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Brad A. Myers. "Challenges of HCI Design and Implementation," ACM
Interactions. vol. 1, no. 1. January, 1994. pp. 73-83.
(postscript)
Discusses why user interfaces are important, and why they are hard to
design and implement.
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Recommended Readings:
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Brad A. Myers and Mary Beth Rosson. "Survey on User Interface Programming,"
Proceedings SIGCHI'92: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Monterrey,
CA, May 3-7, 1992. pp. 195-202
(postscript)
(note: Postscript may not print correctly)
Discusses what percent of the time and effort goes into the UI part.
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Nielsen Text: Chapters 1 and 2
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Wed
Jan 19
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2. UI Styles, Dimensions
of UI Variability, Introduction to Benchmarks
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Required Reading:
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Brad A. Myers, Neal Altman, Khalil Amiri, Matthew Centurion, Fay Chang, Chienhao
Chen, Herb Derby, John Huebner, Rich Kaylor, Ralph Melton, Robert O'Callahan,
Matthew Tarpy, Konur Unyelioglu, Zhenyu Wang, and Randon Warner. "Using
Benchmarks to Teach and Evaluate User Interface Tools." Submitted for
publication.
(postscript)
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* Start Work on Homework 1:
Benchmark descriptions.
Benchmarks from previous years:
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Mon
Jan 24
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3. UI Design: UI
Guidelines
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Required Readings:
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Recommended Readings:
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Nielsen Text: Chapter 8
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Grudin, "The Case Against User Interface Consistency," CACM, Oct 89, pp.
1164-1173
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Wed
Jan 26
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Presentations and discussions of the benchmark tasks
(by class members)
* Benchmark descriptions DUE
* Start Work on Homework 2:
Usability Evaluation
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Mon
Jan 31
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4. Usability Engineering
Design Process
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Required Readings:
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Nielsen Text: Chapter 4 and 6
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Recommended Readings:
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Nielsen Text: Chapter 2 and 7
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Wed
Feb 2
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Examples of Good and Bad User Interfaces
Presentations:
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Quicken
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Macintosh Map
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others, TBD
* Presented by the class members (optional)
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Mon
Feb 7
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5. Overview of UI Software
and Tools
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Required Readings:
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Brad A. Myers. "User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on
Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 2, no. 1, March, 1995. pp. 64-103.
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Brad A. Myers. "A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology."
ACM interactions. Vol. 5, no. 2, March, 1998. To appear. A previous
version appeared as CS TR CMU-CS-96-163 and HCII TR CMU-HCII-96-103:
html and
postscript.
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Wed
Feb 9
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Past Present and Future of User Interface Software
Tools
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(Paper presented at HCIC'99)
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Required Readings:a
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Brad A. Myers, Scott Hudson and Randy Pausch. "Past Present and Future of
User Interface Software Tools," ACM Transactions on Computer Human
Interaction, 2000. To appear in the
Special Millennium Issue.
Available as:
postscript
or Acrobat
* Homework 2 DUE
* Start Work on Homework
3: First Implementation of a Benchmark Task, using a Prototyping
Tool
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Mon
Feb 14
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6. Interactive Tools:
Prototypers (HyperCard, Director, Visual Basic), Interface
Builders
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Required Readings:
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James Landay and Brad A. Myers. "Interactive Sketching for the Early Stages
of User Interface Design," Proceedings CHI'95: Human Factors in Computing
Systems. Denver, CO. May, 1995. pp. 43-50.
(html)
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Optional Readings:
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Brad A. Myers. "Separating Application Code from Toolkits: Eliminating
the Spaghetti of Call-Backs," ACM Symposium on User Interface Software
and Technology: UIST'91, Hilton Head, SC, Nov. 11-13, 1991. pp. 211-220.
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James A. Landay and Brad A. Myers. Just Draw It! Programming by Sketching
Storyboards. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-95-199 and Human Computer Interaction Institute
Technical Report CMU-HCII-95-106. November, 1995.
(html)
(postscript)
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Wed Feb 16
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7. Software Organization:
Lexical-syntax-semantics, Seeheim Model, MVC, Object-Oriented Programming
for UIs
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Required Readings:
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Brad A. Myers, Dario A. Giuse, and Brad Vander Zanden. "Declarative Programming
in a Prototype-Instance System: Object-Oriented Programming Without Writing
Methods," Proceedings OOPSLA'92: ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Systems, Languages, and Applications. October 18-22, 1992. Vancouver,
BC, Canada. SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 27, no. 10. pp. 184-200.
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Optional Readings:
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William Buxton, "Lexical and Pragmatic Considerations of Input Structures,"
Computer Graphics, January, 1983, (17)1, pp. 31-37. (lexical, syntactic,
semantic, etc.)
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Mark Green, "Report on Dialogue Specification Tools," User Interface Management
Systems, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985. pp. 9-20. (Seeheim model)
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Model-View-Controller paper, 40 pages.
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Mon
Feb 21
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8.
Constraints
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Required Readings:
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Brad Vander Zanden, Brad A. Myers, Dario Giuse and Pedro Szekely. "Integrating
Pointer Variables into One-Way Constraint Models," ACM Transactions on
Computer-Human Interaction. vol. 1, no. 2, June, 1994. pp. 161-213.
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Optional Readings:
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Brad Vander Zanden, "An Incremental Algorithm for Satisfying Hierarchies
of Multi-way, Dataflow Constraints", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages
and Systems, 18(1), January, 1996. pp. 30-72.
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Brad A. Myers, Robert C. Miller, Rich McDaniel, and Alan Ferrency, "Easily
Adding Animations to Interfaces Using Constraints." ACM Symposium on User
Interface Software and Technology, UIST'96, November 6-8, 1996. Seattle,
WA. pp. 119-128.
postscript.
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Wed
Feb 23
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* In-class presentations of 1st Benchmark
Implementation
Start 2nd Implementation of a Benchmark Task,
using a new tool
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Mon
Feb 28
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Constraints, continued
Instructions for the mid-term exam
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Wed
Mar 1
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* In-class Mid-term exam
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Mon
Mar 6
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Mid-Semester Break
No classes
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Wed
Mar 8
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Discuss mid-term
9. Toolkits: intrinsics,
callbacks, resources, widget hierarchies, geometry
management
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Mon
Mar 13
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10. Basic Computer
Graphics
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Required Readings:
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New Foley & van Dam, pp. 25-40, 52-60
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old Foley & van Dam, pp. 132-134 (color maps)
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Wed
Mar 15
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* In-class presentations of 2nd Benchmark
Implementation
Start 3rd Implementation of a Benchmark Task,
using a new tool
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Mon
Mar 20
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11. Other Output Models:
structured graphics; display postscript
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Required Readings:
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Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, Robert C. Miller, Alan Ferrency,
Andrew Faulring, Bruce D. Kyle, Andrew Mickish, Alex Klimovitski, and
Patrick Doane."The Amulet Environment: New Models for Effective User
Interface Software Development", IEEE Transactions on Software
Engineering, Vol. 23, no. 6. June, 1997. pp. 347-365.
Abstract
in html,
postscript.
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Wed
Mar 22
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No class, (personal reasons)
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Mon
Mar 27
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Spring Break
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Wed
Mar 29
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Spring Break
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Mon
Apr 3
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CHI'2000: No class
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Wed
Apr 5
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CHI'2000: No class
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Mon
Apr 10
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12. Window Manager Input
Models
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Wed
Apr 12
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* In-class presentations of 3rd Benchmark
Implementation
Start 4th Implementation of a Benchmark Task,
using Amulet
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Mon
Apr 17
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13. New toolkit input models:
Garnet & Amulet
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Required Readings:
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Brad A. Myers. "A New Model for Handling Input," ACM Transactions on
Information Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3. July, 1990. pp. 289-320.
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Brad A. Myers and David Kosbie. "Reusable Hierarchical Command Objects,"
Proceedings CHI'96: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver,
BC, Canada. April 14-18, 1996.
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Brad A. Myers. "Scripting Graphical Applications by Demonstration,"
Proceedings CHI'98: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Los Angeles,
CA, April 18-23, 1998. pp. 534-541.
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Wed
Apr 19
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14. Demonstrational
Tools
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Required Readings:
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Brad A. Myers, Richard G. McDaniel, and David S. Kosbie. "Marquise: Creating
Complete User Interfaces by Demonstration," Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human
Factors in Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29,
1993. pp.
293-300.
ftp://a.gp.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/garnet/doc/papers/marquiseCHI93.ps
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Richard G. McDaniel and Brad A. Myers, "Getting More Out Of
Programming-By-Demonstration." Proceedings CHI'99: Human Factors in Computing
Systems. Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999. pp. 442-449.
postscript.
(Gamut)
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Brad Myers, Richard McDaniel and David Wolber. "Intelligence in Demonstrational
Interfaces," Communications of the ACM. March, 2000. vol. 43, no.
3. pp. 82-89.
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Optional Readings:
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Brad A. Myers. "Creating User Interfaces Using Programming-by-Example, Visual
Programming, and Constraints," ACM Transactions on Programming Languages
and Systems. vol. 12, no. 2, April, 1990. pp. 143-177. (Peridot)
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Brad A. Myers, Brad Vander Zanden, and Roger B. Dannenberg. "Creating Graphical
Interactive Application Objects by Demonstration," ACM Symposium on User
Interface Software and Technology: UIST'89, Williamsburg, VA, Nov. 13-15,
1989. pp. 95-104. (Lapidary)
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Fri Apr 21
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**Special Makeup
Class**
15. UIMS Techniques: Menu trees,
transition networks, grammars, Event Languages, HyperTalk, production systems,
Declarative Languages
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Required Readings:
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Mark Green, "A Survey of Three Dialog Models," ACM Transactions on Graphics
(5)3, Jul, 1986, pp 244-275.
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chapter 10 from Olsen's book: "Editing Dialog Models"
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Optional readings:
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Robert J.K. Jacob, "A Specification Language for Direct Manipulation
Interfaces," ACM Transactions on Graphics, Oct, 1986, vol. 5, no.
4, pp. 283-317.
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Ralph D. Hill, "Supporting Concurrency, Communication and Synchronization
in Human-Computer Interaction - The Sassafras UIMS", ACM Transactions
on Graphics, Jul, 86, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 179-210.
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Philip J. Hayes, Pedro A. Szekely, and Richard A. Lerner, "Design Alternatives
for User Interface Management Systems Based on Experience with COUSIN",
Proceedings SIGCHI'85: Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Francisco,
CA, Apr, 1985, pp. 169-175
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Mon
Apr 24
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16. Model-based tools: Creating
the UI Automatically
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Required Readings:
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Dan R. Olsen, Jr., "A Programming Language Basis for User Interface Management,"
Proceedings SIGCHI'89, Austin, TX, Apr, 1989, pp. 171-176.
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Optional Readings:
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Brad Vander Zanden and Brad A. Myers, "Automatic, Look-and-Feel Independent
Dialog Creation for Graphical User Interfaces," Proceedings SIGCHI'90:
Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seattle, WA, April 1-5, 1990.
pp. 27-34.
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Pedro Szekely, Ping Luo, and Robert Neches, "Beyond Interface Builders:
Model-Based Interface Tools, Proceedings INTERCHI'93: Human Factors in
Computing Systems. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29, 1993. pp.
383-390.
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Wed
Apr 26
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17. Component Techniques:
Andrew, OLE, OpenDoc, Java Beans
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Optional Readings:
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Andrew J. Palay, Fred Hansen, Mike Kazar, Mark Sherman, Maria Wadlow, Thomas
Neuendorffer, Zalman Stern, Miles Bader, and Thom Peters. "The Andrew Toolkit
- An Overview", Published in Proceedings USENIX Technical Conference,
Winter 1988.
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JavaBeans Web Pages
(http://java.sun.com/beans/), especially, the JavaBeans tutorial
introduction:
http://java.sun.com/beans/docs/javaBeansTutorial-Nov97/javabeans/whatis/index.html
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Mon
May 1
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Catch up, and videos
Fill out questionnaire in class
Instructions for the Final
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Wed
May 3
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* In-class presentations of 4th Benchmark
Implementation
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Thur 5/11
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FINAL EXAM, 8:30-11:30am, DH 2105, May 11, 2000
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