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Developing principles of GUI programming using views

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Judith Bishop,

Nigel HorspoolAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '04: Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 373 - 377

https://doi.org/10.1145/971300.971429

Published: 01 March 2004 Publication History

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This paper proposes that GUI development is as important as other aspects of programming, such as a sound understanding of control structures and object orientation. Far less attention has been paid to the programming structures for GUIs and certainly there are few cross language principles to aid the programmer. We propose that principles of GUIs can be extracted and learnt, and that they do enhance good programming practice. These principles have been implemented in our Views system which features an XML-based GUI description notation coupled with an engine that shields the programmer from much of the intricate complexity associated with events, listeners and handlers. The system is programmed primarily in C# for .NET, but is available in various forms for Java and for other platforms which support .NET through the SSCLI.

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Developing principles of GUI programming using views
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Visual languages
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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SIGCSE '04: Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2004

544 pages

ISBN:1581137982

DOI:10.1145/971300

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 36, Issue 1
March 2004
501 pages
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DOI:10.1145/1028174
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