CS1S467 GUI Programming Lab Introduction

I am Peter Plassmann peter.plassmann@southwales.ac.uk J226 (office) / J150 (lab) 01443 / 48 3717

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Timetable You Lectures Labs 1 hour lecture Mondays, 11:00 to 12:00, H230 Labs 2 hours lab Thursdays, 15:00 to 17:00, J113 You should all be Information Communications Technology (ICT) students

Assessment No Exam But: 2 Courseworks We know, you must be gutted... In labs, programming tasks CW 1: 40% CW 2: 60% To pass: CW1 * 0.4 + CW2 *0.6 > 40%

Module Content Blackboard tour now (content, assignments, books, resources, labs, ...)

We Are Using C# C ‘dialect’ by MS (derived from J++ but a $20 million legal dispute later…) C is most popular programming language (Java, C# 2nd) Identical principle, different implementation: C# under .NET Java under JVM (Java Virtual Machine)

We Are Using Visual Studio 2015 ‘Community’ Edition at home (free to download) ‘Enterprise’ Edition in the Labs (compatible to the ‘Community’ version, just more features we won’t need / use in this module) Subject to Change

In Lab 1 this Week Introduction to C# under VS 2 examples (using YouTube tutorials) a Console I/O application a Windows GUI application

Now Go to Blackboard ‘Learning Materials’ page ‘Lab’ column for week 1 Open the ‘Task Sheet’ and follow instructions