CS3007

Lecture Slides

All (PE) slides are stored as compressed Postscript files. Beside each topic, the number of slides and approximate size of the uncompressed Postscript file are given. When printed, each slide occupies one A4 sheet; use the UNIX command psnup to print multiple slides per A4 sheet.

For example, to print a Postscript file named design.ps on the printer located in room 204 proceed as follows:

psnup -4 design.ps | lpr -Plj4_204

This will print 4 slides to a single page of A4.

Introduction to Software Engineering (PE)

Introduction; software engineering; software development cycle; prototyping; spiral model; costs.

(23 slides, 228K)

Systems Analysis & Modelling (DW)

All slides

Project Management

Why is software development so difficult? Project management concerns; project resources; what is management? Managing software projects; software metrics; cost & effort estimation; risk analysis.

(29 slides, 1054K)

Design

Introduction to design; modularity; structure charts; structured design; transform analysis; transaction analysis; data structure design; advantages of using abstraction during design; design heuristics; algorithm selection; N-S charts; design document.

(48 slides, 218K)

Software Quality Assurance

Introduction to software quality assurance; quality management system; quality plan; ISO 9001; standards accreditation; technical reviews.

(14 slides, 480K)

Human-Computer Interaction/User-Interface Design

Introduction and motivation; design - overview; accommodation of human diversity; internationalization; designing for special user communities; guidance for user-interface designers; GOMS and keystroke models; task-action grammars; object-action interface model; principles of user-interface design; "know thy user"; task profiles; interaction styles; golden rules of interface design; prevent errors; guidelines for data display, data entry, getting user's attention; user-interface design process; guidelines documents and processes; software tools; expert reviews; usability testing; surveys.

(40 slides, 135K)

Introduction to the X-Window System

Introduction to X; X servers & clients; file system vs. X-window system; network transparency; GUI look & feel; libraries & toolkits; intrinsics & widgets; windows; window managers; alternative window systems; summary - why is X so useful/powerful?

(25 slides, 106K)

Introduction to X-Window Programming

Programming X applications; layered structure of an X application; event-handling & callbacks; what do we need to program in X? Shared libraries.

(8 slides, 36K)

Overview of Tcl/Tk

Basic introduction to Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. (16 slides)

(4 page handout, 136K)

Implementation

Introduction to implementation; testing overview; integration; test harness code; top-down vs. bottom-up integration; integration using threads; integration planning; source code.

(21 slides, 124K)

Software Testing

Introduction to software testing; principles of testing; unit testing; static vs. dynamic testing; white-box testing; black-box testing; datastructure-based testing; integration testing.

(20 slides, 48K)

The Tcl Language

Overview of Tcl language features and commands: basics; variables; command & backslash substitution; quoting with "" & {}; lists; arrays; expressions & mathematical functions; control structures; procedures; local & global variables; string manipulation; file input/output; error handling. (18 slides)

(5 page handout, 52K)

The Tk Toolkit

Tk basics; widgets & the widget hierarchy; specifying colours, fonts & distances; frames; toplevels; buttons, checkbuttons, radiobuttons; labels; messages; scales; listboxes; entries; menus, menubuttons; scrollbars. (21 slides)	(6 page handout, 572K)
Tk geometry managers; anchor options; place; grid; pack; hierarchical packing; handling events with bind; events & substitutions; update; canvases; canvas items. (17 slides)	(5 page handout, 1.1M)

See also the CS3007 Tcl/Tk page for copies of syntax handouts, etc.

CS3007 | Pete Edwards | Staff & Students
Computing Science

Last updated: January 22, 2002
pedwards@csd.abdn.ac.uk