Dr. Frank McCown
Science 207
3:00 - 4:15 MW
Fall 2017

Class links

• Syllabus
• Easel
• Canvas
• Class notes
• Writing Clean Code

Academic Integrity

• A Plea for Integrity
• Aspects of Academic Integrity (video)
• Aspects of Academic Integrity 2 (video)

Microsoft Imagine

• How to access Microsoft Imagine software
• Microsoft Imagine

GitHub

• GitHub Desktop
• GitHub for Noobs (3/4) Using the GitHub Desktop App (Video)
• Git and GitHub for Beginners: GitHub basics, and how to use GitHub Desktop (Video)
• McCown's GitHub tutorials:
  1. Git and GitHub
  2. Create and Clone a GitHub Repo
  3. Visual Studio and GitHub
  4. GitHub Merge Conflicts

Student Presentations

• Presentation Grading Sheet
• Blooper Examples

History

• McCown's History of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) (PowerPoint)
• Graphical User Interface Timeline
• A Brief History of User Interfaces
• GUI History and Screenshots (Harding only)
• Guidebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery

User Interface Guidelines

• Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines
• Checkboxes vs. Radio buttons
• OS X Human Interface Guidelines

.NET Programming

• .NET Book Zero: What the C or C++ Programmer Needs to Know About C# and the .NET Framework by Charles Petzold
• McCown's Introduction to .NET (PowerPoint)
• McCown's VB.NET and C# Comparison
• Creating a Screen Saver with C#
• Background Worker in .NET 2.0 GUI libraries

WPF

• Deitel's Windows Presentation Foundation Resource Center
• Christian Moser's WPF Tutorials
• Rob Eisenberg's WPF Tutorial
• MSDN Help
  • Getting Started with Windows Presentation Foundation
  • WPF Windows Overview
  • Dialog Boxes Overiew
• WindowsClient.NET

GUI References

• Effective Visual Communication for Graphical User Interfaces
• Model-View-Controller

Designing with the Mind in Mind (2nd Edition) by Jeff Johnson (2014)
Required

C# 6 for Programmers (6th Edition)
by Paul J. Deitel & Harvey M. Deitel
Recommended

Developing Windows 10 Applications with C#
by Sergii Baidachnyi
Recommended