GOG 414/590 Home Page GOG 414/590 Self Tests

Computer Cartography/Advanced Cartography Lecture Schedule, Fall 2009

Date	Topic All labs meet in AS 003	Readings (in Learning Java)
Sept. 1	Intro to hardware
3	Intro to Java programming	Preface, Ch. 1
8	Lab 1: Intro to Java and Eclipse (due 9/22)
10	Display technology
15	Assignment in Java	Ch. 2
17	Java decision structures	Setting up your own web page and using HTML 1
22	Lab 2: Finding the circumference along a parallel (due 10/06)
24	Coordinate systems and Map projections in GIS
29	Java classes and objects	Ch. 5 and 6
Oct. 1	Color Systems
6	Lab 3: Projecting Coordinates (due 10/20)
8
13
15	MIDTERM
20	Affine transformations
22	Lab 4: Reading coordinates in a file (part 1) (due 11/3)
27	Java arrays and loops Raster data structures	Ch. 4
29	Raster data structures (cont.)
Nov. 3	Lab 5: Reading coordinates in a file (part 2) (due 11/12)
5	Digital elevation models
10	Isarithmic maps
12	Lab 6: Reading coordinates in a file (part 3) (due 11/24)
17	Hill shading and 3D rendering of DEMs Perspective mapping transformations
19	Perspective mapping (cont.)
24	Representing spatial data with object-oriented techniques
26	NO CLASS
Dec 1	Line simplification
Dec 3 (last class)	TBA