COMP SCI 7089 - Event Driven Computing

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2014

Event driven paradigm: Finite State Automata, their behaviour and implementation. Correspondence with regular expressions. Examples of embedded systems. Introduction to interconnected state machines, Petri Nets and concurrency. Concepts of state-space and relationship to testing. Building Graphical User Interfaces: model-view-controller paradigm. Building GUIs with the Java Swing library. Ease of use and human-computer interaction. Practical projects cover the use of FSAs for control logic and GUI design. Introduction to design patterns for managing complexity in large systems

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