Syllabus, CSE 490ra, Winter 2005

Lecture schedule - subject to significant modification

• Tues Jan 4 - Intro to tablet, description of projects.
• Thu Jan 6 - Announcements of project groups. First SDK lecture
• Tues Jan 11 - Pen computing lecture, HW1 Due
• Thu Jan 13 - SDK lecture
• Tues Jan 18 - SDK Lecture HW2 Due
• Thu Jan 20 - Project vision, Class presentations
• Tues Jan 25 - SDK Lecture HW3 Due
• Thu Jan 27 - Software Engineering Lecture
• Tues Feb 1 - HW4 Due
• Thu Feb 3 - Early prototypes, Class presentations
• Tues Feb 8 - Topic lecture
• Thu Feb 10 - group work
• Tues Feb 15 - Topic lecture
• Thu Feb 17 - group work
• Tues Feb 22 - Alpha versions, Class presentations
• Thu Feb 24 - group work
• Tues Mar 1 - Topic lecture
• Thu Mar 3 - group work
• Tues Mar 8 - Topic lecture
• Thu Mar 10 Projects due, Summary lecture

Project checkpoints

• Thursday, Jan 20, Project vision - rough specification, storyboard UI
• Thursday, Feb 3, Early prototype - proof of concept prototype - address core technical challenges
• Tuesday, Feb 22, Alpha version - most functionality present - plan for completion.
• Thursday, March 10, Release version- last day of class. Due at noon.
• Thursday, Mar 17, 10:30 - 12:20 Final Project Demos

Curricula

• Pen based computing - overview of the tablet, pen computing.
• Windows Programming / C# - optional tutorials - not covered in lecture.
• Software Engineerign - one lecture on teams, group work, and software disasters
• Tablet SDK - multiple lectures - probably three or four. Basic Ink Manipulation, Recognition, Real Time Stylus
• Topics in pen based computing - not at the programming level
  • Stylus UI
  • Collaborative Applications
  • Computation Geometry
  • Hardware
  • Recognition Technology