6.813/6.831  User Interface Design

Announcement for Preregistered Students

We're looking forward to a fun and engaging class this semester, but wanted to draw your attention to a few things you should know about the course:

1. Attendance is required at the first lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 3 (1-2 pm in 34-101). The course is oversubscribed, so if you're not there you won't be able to take the course.
2. The class meets MWF1, not just MW1 as stated in Websis. For about half the Fridays, we'll skip the all-class meeting at 1 and break up into studio sections instead (at 12, 1, or 2, depend on which section your group is in). But you should make sure your schedule has F1 free for the weeks when we do meet as a full class on Friday.
3. Laptops will be required for lectures -- including the first. If you don't have a functioning laptop, IS&T has a loaner program, but you should act now to get one.
4. The course has a prerequisite: 6.005 or equivalent software engineering experience. We will be enforcing this requirement, and in particular, we expect you to have all of the following:
   • Substantial programming experience in Java, C#, C++, or a similar language (i.e. not just Python or Javascript)
     
   • Experience building at least one graphical user interface
     
   • Experience working in a small software development team using version control
     

   Note that programming experience limited to HTML, Javascript, or Python does NOT satisfy the prerequisite for this course, and you will not be able to enroll. When you fill out the signup form at the first lecture, you will have to explain how you satisfy the prerequisite.
   

That's it for now. See you in February!

Announced on 11 January 2016  6:56  p.m. by Robert C Miller