CSE 341 - Programming Languages

Constraints for Interactive Graphics

This page gives links to material that we discussed in class Dec 7 and 9. This material is just for your interest and education -- it won't be on the final.

• Alan Kay, “Doing with Images Makes Symbols” (video). The Sketchpad movie starts at 4:00 minutes.
• ThingLab video (recorded at Xerox PARC, 1978)
• ThingLab system (using the code from 1979, running with a Smalltalk-76 interpreter written in Javascript)
• Cocoa Auto-Layout; Auto Layout by Example. Apple Developer videos from WWDC 2011 and 2012 -- you'll need an Apple developer account to view it (free).
• Grid Style Sheets
• Rosette
• UW Constraint-Based Systems (historical papers)
• See this page for recent papers on Babelsberg, a family of object constraint languages