Using a Visual Programming Computer Laboratory to Teach Event-Driven Graphical User Interface Design and Programming

本计画将建立一个新的视觉程式设计电脑实验室，以支援软体工程与使用者介面设计的教学。 可视化程序设计实验室配备了五台多媒体微型计算机，一台文件和应用服务器，一台打印机，一台扫描仪和可视化程序设计语言“Microsoft Visual Basic”。“该实验室为高年级计算机科学专业的学生提供设计、构建和评估具有图形和多媒体用户界面的事件驱动程序的实践经验。 需求分析，快速原型，用户测试和设计迭代的重点。 从实验室直接受益的两门课程是CS 480软件工程和CS 481软件工程项目。 一个特殊的主题课程，CS 498用户界面设计，提供作为新的硬件，软件和教材的试验台。 学生将他们在课堂上学到的东西应用到可视化编程实验室的编程项目中。

This project is establishing a new visual programming computer lab to support the teaching of software engineering and user-interface design. The visual programming lab is equipped with five multimedia microcomputers, a file and application server, a printer, a scanner, and the visual programming language "Microsoft Visual Basic." The lab provides upper-division computer science majors with hands-on experience designing, building, and evaluating event-driven programs with graphical and multimedia user interfaces. Requirements analysis, rapid prototyping, user testing, and design iteration are emphasized. Two courses that benefit directly from the lab are CS 480 Software Engineering and CS 481 Software Engineering Project. A special topics course, CS 498 User-Interface Design, is offered as a test bed for the new hardware, software, and teaching materials. Students apply what they learn in class to their programming projects in the visual programming lab.