Class meets Mondays and Thursdays 9:50 AM-11:00 PM in SCI 257

• P. Takis Metaxas (x3054)
  Office: SCI E116
  Office Hours: Please consult Prof. Metaxas' web home page
  
• Teaching Assistants:
  Mina Kang and SooBeen Kim
  Office hours and Location: See announcements in FirstClass CS215-01-S09 conference
  

• The Honor Code applies for this course. This means that the work you submit must be absolutely your own.
• Attendance - an absolute must.
• Your preparation for class is also essential.
• Weekly homework and a Small Project
  
• There will be a final exam for the course.
• Grading:
  10% Class Preparation and Participation
  40% Homework
  20% Small Project
  30% Final Exam
• Criteria for Grading Homework:
  Functionality
  Design
  Creativity/Originality
  Effective Use of the Media
  Efficiency
  Following Guidelines covered so far

D11: Director 11 Reference (online) - by Adobe (Required)
This is the official reference for the software we will be using. A pdf copy of the Director 11 Reference is also available online.

The following books are recommended for the course:

SV: An Introduction to Digital Multimedia - by T.M. Savage and K.E. Vogel
If you are new to multimedia, this book has a smooth entry that can help you understand many of the terms that technical people use without explanation.

McCW User-Centered Website Development by D.D. McCracken and R.J. Wolfe
A good introductory book for those who want to know the basics of Human-Computer Interaction. In the Science Library Reserves.

Dean: Dean's Director Tutorials and Resources contain are online and can be helpful when you want to learn Director by example.

Kim-I: Inversions - by Scott Kim (out of print). We will study the chapter on Letterforms (pp.92-97)

Kim-P: Puzzle Workout - by Scott Kim (out of print).

HCSDG: Hypercard Stack Design Guidelines (out of print).
This book, written for designing Hypercard projects (known as 'stacks'), has excellent chapters on designing multimedia projects using any tool. In the Science Library Reserves.

HCID: The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design - ed. by Brenda Laurel

• Page 31-44: "Interdisciplinary Cooperation", by Scott Kim (amusing discussion of topic)
• Page 65: "Working with Interface Metaphors", by Thomas D.Erickson
• Page 79-84: "Prototyping: A Day in the Life of an Interface Designer", by Annette Wagner

There are many multimedia CD-ROMs available - too many to list here. Feel free to browse them in SCI 160A. Also in the Science Library Reserves a must-see: The Matrix / The Matrix Revisited (DVDs).