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Tentative Course Outline for Seminar in GIS

Spring 2014

Date	Lecture	Readings (LJ = Learning Java, BW = Bowyer and Woodwark (links))
Jan 23	Coordinate geometry and computer graphics
28	Representing points and lines	Wikipedia entry on equations of lines
30	Lab 1--Doing Calculations on Lines (due 2/11)	Cartesian components of vectors (from mathcentre) LJ Chapter 5
Feb 4	Spatial relationships between points and lines
6	Establishing class hierarchies	LJ chapter 4
11	Lab 2—Drawing and Analyzing Line Segments due 2/27	BW Introduction BW Chapter 1
13	Using class constructors
18	Working with line segments
20	NO CLASS
25	Working with polygons	BW Chapter 4 BW Chapter 7
27	Lab 3—Drawing Multiple Line Segments (due 3/27)	Using JAR files More constructor practice
Mar 4	Affine transformations	JAR file for a matrix multiplication demo Vecmath.jar MatrixMult.jar
6	Simple web connection applet	JAR file for simple web applet Creating signed applets
11		LJ chapter 20
13	NO CLASS
18	NO CLASS
20	NO CLASS
25	Lab 4—2D Transformations, Part 1 (due 4/3)	Demo code for working with planes Vecmath jar for project
27	Circles and angles Planes	BW Chapter 2
Apr 1		LJ chapter 4 LJ chapter 7
3	Lab 4—2D Transformations, Part 2 (due 4/17)	Bowyer and Woodwark Intro to Computing with Geometry
8		Enhanced for loops demo
10	Open lab time for working on projects, should you wish	BW Chapter 5
15	NO CLASS	Lab 5—Reading and Rendering Web Data, Part 1 (due ____)
17	Lab 5—Group projects	Sample code for manipulating images Sample Image Lab 6—Reading and Rendering Web Data, Part 2 (due ____)
22	Curves	Lab 7—Reading and Rendering Web Data, Part 3 (due ____)
24	Douglas line simplification algorithm	DEM manual
29	Working with standardized data structures (National Elevation Dataset)	Sample project for sharing data between classes
May 1	3D Landscape Rendering
6	Creating a web page from an existing app	Sample code for stable drawing in an applet Content Panes (from Fred Swartz)
8	Streams in Java Recursion Raster data structures	Image data and compression