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Tentative Course Outline for Seminar in GIS

Spring 2012

Date	Lecture	Readings (LJ = Learning Java, BW = Bowyer and Woodwark (links))
1/19	Computational geometry
1/24	Representing points and lines
1/26	Lab 1--Doing Calculations on Lines (due 2/7)
1/31
2/2	Spatial relationships between points and lines
2/7	Lab 2—Drawing and Analyzing Line Segments (due 2/21)	BW Introduction BW Chapter 1
2/9		LJ chapter 4
2/14	Using class constructors
2/16	Working with line segments
2/21	Lab 3—Drawing Multiple Line Segments (due 3/6)
2/23	Working with polygons	BW Chapter 4 BW Chapter 7
2/28		Using JAR files
3/1	Affine transformations
3/6	Lab 4—Finding Line Segment Intersections (due 3/29)	LJ chapter 4 LJ chapter 7 BW Chapter 3
3/8	Simple web connection applet	JAR file for simple web applet
3/13	NO CLASS
3/15	NO CLASS
3/20	Circles and angles	BW Chapter 2
3/22	Planes	Demo code for working with planes Vecmath jar for project
3/27	Streams in Java	LJ chapter 4 LJ chapter 7
3/29		Enhanced for loops demo
4/3	Lab 5—Reading and Rendering Web Data, Part 1 (due 4/12)
4/5	Recursion	Bowyer and Woodwark Intro to Computing with Geometry
4/10	Curves	BW Chapter 5
4/12	Lab 6—Reading and Rendering Web Data, Part 2 due 4/24
4/17	Douglas line simplification algorithm
4/19	Working with standardized data structures (National Elevation Dataset)	DEM manual
4/24	Lab 7—Reading and Rendering Web Data, Part 3 (due 5/3)	Sample project for sharing data between classes
4/26	3D Landscape Rendering
5/1	Creating a web page from an existing app	Sample code for stable drawing in an applet Content Panes (from Fred Swartz)
5/3	Image data and compression
5/8