Advanced Programming of Interactive Systems

Edition: 2026/2027 (1st ed.)
Last-Modified: 2025-10-25

Teachers

• James Eagan, contact: email
• Daniel Medeiros, contact: email

Syllabus

• Introduction to Interactive Systems
  • History of interaction paradigms, devices, technologies
  • High-level architecture (Hardware, OS, Toolkit, Application layers)
  • Java Swing refresher
• Program Organization & Layout
  • Interaction architecture approaches (MVC, PAC, Arch…)
  • Layout
    • Manual, LayoutManagers, Springs & Struts, Constraints
    • GUI Builders
  • Re-creating a Button from scratch
• Output
  • Display technologies, past & future
  • Display architectures
  • Frame buffers and vector-based drawing
• Input
  • Input devices and technologies, past & future
  • Event-handlings, event loops
  • Event dispatch strategies
• GUI Programming Paradigms
  • State machines
  • Declarative programming
  • Graphical methods
• Client-Server interaction
  • Cross-device program organization
  • Serialization & Object Mappers
  • Communications protocols
  • Web-based technologies & REST
• Project: Application of a technique from a research article in a novel context