Title :
Design patterns for developing GUI applications
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Grand Valley State Univ., Allendale, MI, USA
Abstract :
The authors describe how they introduced several design patterns when teaching Visual C++ as a tool in their "GUI Design" course. Their experience showed that design patterns helped deal with its complex and flatten the learning curve without diverting too much attention from the course\´s primary objectives.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; graphical user interfaces; object-oriented programming; teaching; user interface management systems; GUI applications development; GUI design course; Visual C++; computer science; course objectives; design patterns; learning curve; teaching tool; Application software; Collaboration; Computer science; Education; Graphical user interfaces; Navigation; Programming profession; Skeleton; Spatial databases; Visual databases;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual
Conference_Location :
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5643-8
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1999.839091
