• Course goals, structure, and context
• Prototyping defined
• Kinds of prototyping (lo-fi, hi-fi)
• Practicum: setting up the development environment

Assignments:

• Project Phase 0: Lo-fi prototype. Due next class

• Jython syntax
• Scoping rules
• Collections, Classes, and Modules
• Accessing Swing from Jython

Other stuff:

• Swing Sampler code (fixed Swing Sampler code for Jython 2.5.2)
• Mike’s great page on translating from JavaDoc to Jython (also as PDF)

Assignments:

• Project Phase 0: Lo-fi prototype.  Due in class today.
• Project Phase 1: GUI module.  Grading Criteria Here

• Understanding asynchrony
• Event-based programming
• Combining event-based and O-O techniques

Readings (summary due next week) (instructions)

• ConNexus to Awarenes: Extending Awareness to Mobile Users

Reminder: Sign up for In-Class Presentations starting next week! (t-square wiki)

Assignments:

• Continue GUI implementation

• Threading and locks
• Implementing an event dispatch engine

Discussion of ConNexus paper

Assignments:

• Project Phase 1: GUI module.  Due Tuesday, 11:59PM

• Networking basics
• Network programming: sockets, marshalling
• P2P and discovery

In-Class Presentations (#1) on GUI assignment

Assignments:

• Project Phase 2: Networking module. (Net Sampler Code, Chat server.py)

• Exception handling
• Network programming idioms
• Protocol design and prototyping

Readings (summary due next week)

• Rethinking the Design of the Internet: The End-to-End Argument vs. the Brave New World [Note: Section 3 is optional; plase read the other sections though.]

Assignments:

• Continue with networking project.

• Lab time in class today.

Readings (summary due next week)

• Picking Pockets on the Lawn: The Development of Tactics and Strategies in a Mobile Game

Assignments:

• Networking project PART I due Tuesday, 11:59PM

• Lab time in class today.

In-Class Presentations (#2) on Networking Phase 1 assignment

Assignments:

• Completed Networking Project due Tuesday, 11:59PM

• Mining intelligence
• Extracing content from the Web
• Web Services: WSDL, SOAP, etc.
• Google, Wikipedia
• Good listing of a lot of the web services APIs that are available

In-Class Presentations (#3) on Networking Phase 2 assignment

Readings (due next week)

• Labeling Images with a Computer Game

Assignments:

• Project Phase 3: Web Services module. 

• Lab time in class today.

• Lab time in class today.

Assignments:

• Project Phase 3 (Web Services module) due Tuesday, 11:59PM

• Data management strategies
• Databases
• Key principles: keys, schemas, relationships
• Designing a database schema, normalization
• SQL overview
• Using databases from Java/Jython: hsqldb.jar

In-Class Presentations (#4) on Web Services assignment

Assignments:

• Project Phase 4: Database module.

• Wrap up previous database slides

Short lecture will be followed by lab time.

• Lab time in class today.

In-Class Presentations (#5) on Database assignment

Assignments:

• Project Phase 4 (Database module) due Tuesday at 11:59PM