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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

Norfolk, Virginia, USA

SESSION: Events vs. GUIs table of contents

Pages: 373 - 377

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-798-2

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Judith Bishop	University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Nigel Horspool	University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper proposes that GUI development is as important as other aspects of programming, such as a sound understanding of control structures and object orientation. Far less attention has been paid to the programming structures for GUIs and certainly there are few cross language principles to aid the programmer. We propose that principles of GUIs can be extracted and learnt, and that they do enhance good programming practice. These principles have been implemented in our Views system which features an XML-based GUI description notation coupled with an engine that shields the programmer from much of the intricate complexity associated with events, listeners and handlers. The system is programmed primarily in C# for .NET, but is available in various forms for Java and for other platforms which support .NET through the SSCLI.

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	1	Judith Bishop , Nigel Horspool, C# Concisely, Pearson Addison Wesley, 2003
	2	Meijer, E., and Schulte. W. Xen and the Art of Coherence Maintenance (in preparation).
	3	Meyer, B., The power of abstraction, reuse and simplicity: an object-oriented library for event-driven design, to appear in Festschrift in Honor of Ole-Johan Dahl, eds. Olaf Owe et al., Springer-Verlag, LNCS 2635, 2003.
	4	David Stutz , Ted Neward , Geoff Shilling, Shared Source Cli Essentials, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2002
	5	UIML website. http://www.uiml.org/index.php
	6	Views website. htpp://www.cs.up.ac.za/rotor
	7	XUL website. http://www.xulplanet.com/
	8	C# Concisely website. http://csharp.cs.uvic.ca

CITED BY 3

	Judith Bishop, Multi-platform user interface construction: a challenge for software engineering-in-the-small, Proceeding of the 28th international conference on Software engineering, May 20-28, 2006, Shanghai, China
	Dirk Draheim , Christof Lutteroth , Gerald Weber, Graphical user interfaces as documents, Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand chapter's international conference on Computer-human interaction: design centered HCI, p.67-74, July 06-07, 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand
	Judith Bishop , Nigel Horspool, Cross-Platform Development: Software that Lasts, Computer, v.39 n.10, p.26-35, October 2006