I am in the process of inviting alumni to participate. I will update the
list as I hear from more. I am doing my best to get alumni from a variety
of years.
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Date |
Topics |
Reading |
| 1 |
Thursday, 24 January 2013 |
Introduction. An overview of the semester. The architecture of a media scripting application. Style guidelines.
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GNU Style Guidelines. The Glimmer Guide to The Architecture of Media Scripting |
| 2 |
Thursday, 31 January 2013 |
Source Code Control Systems. Background: Managing software that is developed by multiple people. Keeping track of multiple versions. Sharing changes. Habits and customs. Technologies: git and Subversion.
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TBD
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| 3 |
Thursday, 7 February 2013 |
Automation with Make. Dependencies in large programs. Recording instructions of building programs. Why use Make. Using Make for more than compilation.
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TBD
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| 4 |
Thursday, 14 February 2013 |
Class Cancelled
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TBD
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| 5 |
Thursday, 21 February 2013 |
Inter-Application Communication with the D-Bus (1): Basics. The purpose of D-Bus. Clients and servers. Communicating with a D-Bus server using D-Feet. Computing with a D-Bus server using Python. Communicating with a D-Bus server using Scheme.
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TBD
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| 6 |
Thursday, 28 February 2013 |
Inter- Application Communication with the D-Bus (2): Writing Clients. Writing a simple client program in C. The GVariant data type. Packing and unpacking values.
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The Glimmer Guide to An Introduction to GObjects.
The Glimmer Guide to An Introduction to GVariants.
The Glimmer Guide to Writing D-Bus Clients in C.
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| 7 |
Thursday, 7 March 2013 |
No class.
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| 8 |
Thursday, 14 March 2013 |
Inter-program Communication with the D-Bus (3): Writing Servers.
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The Glimmer Guide to Writing D-Bus Servers in C.
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| Spring Break! |
| 9 |
Thursday, 4 April 2013 |
GIMP Internals (1): Plug-Ins. Writing a simple plug-in for the GNU Image Manipulation System.
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The Glimmer Guide to A Simple GIMP Plug-In.
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| 10 |
Thursday, 11 April 2013 |
GIMP Internals (2): Manipulating Pixels. The GIMP Pixel model. Modifying pixels. Writing a plug-in that does more sophisticated transformations.
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The Glimmer Guide to Manipulating GIMP pixels in C.
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| 11 |
Thursday, 18 April 2013 |
GIMP Internals (3): The Procedural Database. Determining what functions are available (by hand). Determining what functions are available (by code). Getting information on a function. Ways to call functions. The GimpParam type.
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The Glimmer Guide to Programming the GIMP PDB.
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| 12 |
Thursday, 25 April 2013 |
Racket Internals (1): Overview. Writing a simple Racket
extension in C.
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The Glimmer Guide to Extending Racket with C.
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| 13 |
Thursday, 2 May 2013 |
Racket Internals (2): Types. Dealing with the wide variety
of types.
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The Glimmer Guide to Racket Types.
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| 14 |
Thursday, 9 May 2013 |
Wrapup/Debrief.
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