Individual project and discussion.

The project's specification will be published through the Moodle platform. The exam project must be developed individually. The specification document contains the minimal features that are required to pass the exam and a table reporting the influence (in terms of grade) for each optional feature, up to a maximum of 30/30.

The final oral discussion is used to demonstrate the correct functioning of the program and to verify each feature. The student will be required to outline the development approach followed and the technical solutions adopted. The final grade may be adapted by 5 points.

1. Applications
1.1. Application model
1.2. Application platforms
1.3. Lifecycle

2. Graphical applications
2.1. History of the GUI (Graphical User Interface)
2.2. Base elements of graphical applications
2.3. From the raster pixel, to the typographical point, to DIPs
2.4. Aliasing and scaling

3. User interface
3.1. Windows and graphical elements
3.2. Focus and hit-testing
3.3. Drawing on screen
3.4. Standard controls

4. GUI programming paradigms
4.1. Message passing with Win32
4.2. Object-oriented programming with wxWidgets
4.3. Declarative programming with UWP
4.4. Code-based programming with Flutter

5. Mobile application development
5.1. Mobile platforms and the ‘app’ model
5.2. Touch-based user interfaces
5.3. Standard controls
5.4. Data storage and memory
5.5. Inter-app communication
5.6. Remote communication

6. GUI lab with Win32
6.1. The C language and the Win32 library
6.2. Application classes and the “message pump”
6.3. Window creation and event handling
6.4. Standard windows and Win32 controls
6.5. Graphics with GDI

7. GUI lab with Windows Forms
7.1. The C# language
7.2. The Windows Forms designer
7.3. Properties and events

8. GUI lab with Flutter
8.1. The Dart language
8.2. Pub packages
8.3. The Flutter middleware
8.4. Widgets
8.5. State management
8.6. Inherited widgets and other state propagation systems
8.7. Common widgets
8.8. Application design

9. Final exam project

None.

Students will learn basic principles of interactive application design and development.

Students will discover the fundamental application models and how to design and implement interactive applications with graphical user interfaces.

Students will learn how to design and to develop a graphical user interface using common technologies and paradigms.

Students will learn to put acquires notions into practice, developing interactive GUI applications as laboratory workshops or for the final exam project.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Frontal lectures and lab sessions. Individual project.

Attendance

Not mandatory.

Course books

Teaching materials available online through Blended.

Assessment

Written exam, individual project, and oral discussion.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Materials available online through Blended.

Attendance

Not mandatory.

Course books

Teaching materials available online through Blended.

Assessment

Written exam, individual project, and oral discussion.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.