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GUI-Programming and C++

Important Information

Groups

The first group requests have started coming in. To get your name on the list of groups, do as described in the project description and send a request to me by Friday, March 5th. Final set of groups will be announced Monday, March 8th.

General information

The GUI-Programming and C++ course is a bachelor-level course. You will learn how to create Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) using the C++ programming language with the Qt framework.

Time and place

The first lecture will be on Monday, 4th of January 2010 at 09:30 in room P35-PH461. Subsequent lectures will be held weekly on Mondays at the same time and place.

Asking Questions

As a new feature, I will try out using google moderator, where you can post questions. I will try to answer some of the most popular questions in class. Go to Google moderator for this class and post your questions, or vote on one that someone else has posted.

I do not guarantee that I will answer any or all of the questions. Please keep the questions relevant and to the topic. I reserve the right to select the questions to answer, and to delete anything I find inappropriate.

Semester Schedule

This is a tentative semester schedule. Topics may change or be moved. The dates for the mandatory assignments are fixed.

Week No.	Date	Description	Other	Links
1	04 Jan	Introduction to C++
2	11 Jan	C++ Exercises
3	18 Jan	Intro to SCM and Qt		git Qt A successful Git branching model
4	25 Jan	Signals and Slots	1st mandatory assignment due
5	01 Feb	Windows
6	08 Feb	2D Graphics
7	15 Feb	Drag and drop	2nd mandatory assignment due
8	22 Feb	No lecture (makeup exams)
9	01 Mar	MVC and Menus
10	08 Mar	Pointers and general programming techniques	3rd mandatory assignment due	There will be room for questions, so please think if there is anything you would like me to address. Questions may be asked in class.
11	15 Mar	Locales, Multithreading and Event Processing
12	22 Mar	Networking
13	29 Mar	No lecture (Easter)	4th mandatory assigment due
14	05 Apr	No lecture (Easter)
15	12 Apr		Project due (Wednesday, April 14th.)

All assignments are due on the Monday in question at 09:00 (just before the start of the lecture).

Literature

Required reading

Technically, neither of these books are required, but I will highly recommend that you acquire C++ GUI Programming with Qt4. Any C++ book will do, but I think Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ is good.