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

这个项目是建立一个新的可视化编程计算机实验室，以支持软件工程和用户界面设计的教学。视觉编程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、一台扫描仪和视觉编程语言“微软visual Basic”。该实验室为高年级计算机科学专业学生提供设计、构建和评估带有图形和多媒体用户界面的事件驱动程序的实践经验。强调需求分析、快速原型、用户测试和设计迭代。直接受益于实验室的两门课程是cs480软件工程和cs481软件工程项目。一个专题课程，CS 498用户界面设计，提供了一个新的硬件，软件和教材的试验台。学生将他们在课堂上学到的知识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.