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Tentative Course Outline for Seminar in GIS

Spring 2013

Date	Lecture	Readings (LJ = Learning Java, BW = Bowyer and Woodwark (links))
1/24	Coordinate geometry and computer graphics
1/29	Representing points and lines	Wikipedia entry on equations of lines
1/31	Lab 1--Doing Calculations on Lines (due 2/12)	Cartesian components of vectors (from mathcentre) LJ Chapter 5
2/5
2/7	Spatial relationships between points and lines
2/12	Lab 2—Drawing and Analyzing Line Segments due 2/26	BW Introduction BW Chapter 1
2/14	Establishing class hierarchies	LJ chapter 4
2/19	Using class constructors
2/21	Working with line segments
2/26	Lab 3—Drawing Multiple Line Segments (due 3/12)
2/28	Working with polygons	BW Chapter 4 BW Chapter 7
3/5		Using JAR files
3/7	Affine transformations	JAR file for a matrix multiplication demo Vecmath.jar MatrixMult.jar
3/12	Lab 4—2D Transformations, Part 1 (due 3/26)	LJ chapter 20
3/14	Simple web connection applet	JAR file for simple web applet Creating signed applets
3/19	NO CLASS
3/21	NO CLASS
3/26	Lab 4—2D Transformations, Part 2 (due 4/9)	BW Chapter 2
3/28	Circles and angles
4/2	Planes	Demo code for working with planes Vecmath jar for project
4/4	Streams in Java	LJ chapter 4 LJ chapter 7
4/9	Lab 5—Reading and Rendering Web Data, Part 1 (due 4/18)	Enhanced for loops demo
4/11	Recursion	Bowyer and Woodwark Intro to Computing with Geometry
4/16	Curves	BW Chapter 5
4/18	Lab 6—Reading and Rendering Web Data, Part 2 (due 4/30)
4/23	Douglas line simplification algorithm
4/25	Working with standardized data structures (National Elevation Dataset)	DEM manual
4/30	Lab 7—Reading and Rendering Web Data, Part 3 (due 5/7)	Sample project for sharing data between classes
5/2	3D Landscape Rendering
5/7	Creating a web page from an existing app	Sample code for stable drawing in an applet Content Panes (from Fred Swartz)
	Raster data structures
	Image data and compression