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<p class="MsoPlainText">Today's Topics:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> 1. Re: App development Sorry for the x-posts!) (Andrew Shortell)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Message: 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 15:27:36 +1000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">From: Andrew Shortell <shortell@get2me.net><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] App development Sorry for the x-posts!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">To: "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <sofdev@edulists.com.au><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Message-ID: <171ECBFE-0A84-46A3-8CA6-1670990B31A3@get2me.net><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">go for it Adrian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I am on Board<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Just been cruising the udemy course - not what I need to create a course for students but useful for me - I will work though it over the next few weeks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">let me know where, when <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Also I will be at ICTEV conf this Sat- maybe we can meet up during registration time or at lunch?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Andrew<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Andrew Shortell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">CRC Melton<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:shortell@get2me.net"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">shortell@get2me.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">On 23/05/2012, at 2:56 PM, Kent Beveridge wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> I am sure my boss would be happy to let me come to Melbourne for a day to be part of this course/collaboration. Feels like we are on a 'freight train' of an idea just now. Or perhaps we could do some planning for this on a weekend
or Sat morning sesssion perhaps.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> We could discuss say...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Apps 'out there' already;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Android vs iOS vs others.... as platforms for portable device
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> developments...; Hardware people/schools use; Samples of Apps if some
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> have been x-coded to share; Some sample teaching materials(i have the
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> materials from the iOS course from Swinny for example includes screen casts and some pdf's/ppts)...could share these maybe?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> WARNING...x-code IS a big learning curve item!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> just some ideas to put 'out there' as a beginning point kiddies....<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> KB.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> are we seeing the beginnings of a new era here??????? (or just a big
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> green monster!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Kent Beveridge<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> ICT Co-ordinator, St.Brigids CSC, HORSHAM,Vic,Aus.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <a href="mailto:kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">kbeveridge@stbc.vic.edu.au</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> From: sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au [sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au]
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> on behalf of Andrew Shortell [shortell@get2me.net]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012 2:18 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] App development Sorry for the x-posts!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> me too<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Maybe we could organise a group collaboration on creating a course and then all run it in our schools, feedback to each other and create apps we could all use!!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> I would be happy to organise the collaboration if necessary - this woudl be an exciting project "going forward"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Andrew<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Andrew Shortell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> CRC Melton<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> <a href="mailto:shortell@get2me.net"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">shortell@get2me.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> On 23/05/2012, at 2:12 PM, Kent Beveridge wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>> Me too! 100% iPAD school here too now...plus PC's...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>> Count me in!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>> Kent<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>> Sent from KB's iPAD.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>> On 23/05/2012, at 12:18 PM, "Travis Parker" <<a href="mailto:Travis.Parker@beaconhills.vic.edu.au"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Travis.Parker@beaconhills.vic.edu.au</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Kevork,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> The thing with Adrian (And myself) is that our schools have invested
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> a large amount of time and money into iPad programs and I checked
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> out appinventor and it seems that they only export to android devices?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> There seems to be a text on "App inventing for iPhones" by Graeme
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Summers that I am ordering (Thanks Adrian) and a few of us are
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> trying to organise a new year 10 iOS app development course. If
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> anyone is interested please speak up!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Cheers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Trav<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> -----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> From: sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> [mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kevork Krozian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:14 AM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] App development Sorry for the
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> x-posts!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Hi Adrian,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> This is all very useful to all of our colleagues.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> I recently completed an Android app writing PD at Swinburne Uni
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Hawthorn using appinventor ( see appinventor.org ) and found it very
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> powerful and effortless in transferring to a phone or sharing with
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> other phones. For those who don't have a phone an emulator will
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> still allow testing of the app on Mac or PC. The resources
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> (software, textbooks, completed apps ) are free online. The
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> programming environment is a "scratch" type with no actual coding
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> but a GUI to connect objects, add methods, change properties and
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> parameters. This would translate to a Yr 8 to 10 course so much more
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> easily than say writing code in XNA or in Objective C I feel.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> There are sections on using multi dimensional arrays, saving to a
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> database and much more. Is it starting to look like it could slot
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> into Software Development as a language ? Of course the coding would
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> have to be done in Java for it to be acceptable. There are efforts
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> to provide a java view of the Appinventor GUI see <o:p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <a href="http://www.appinventor.org/roadmap"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://www.appinventor.org/roadmap</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> but that would need to be clarified for Units 3 and 4 Software
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Development purposes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> An equally useful discussion would be to compare the competing app
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> writing and programming options. eg. Cost of registering as a devloper ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> How much will students understand when writing code in a language
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> like Objective C or C# for that matter ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> One of the most useful apps in this series I worked on was "Find
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> my car" which allows recording of the current location using the GPS
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> feature in the phone and then after moving to another location
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> requesting a map showing how to find the car again. This interfaced
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> your way back to the car or if they are in the same spot, the family
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Keep well<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> Kevork<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> Hi Travis,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> Apologies for the previous email - I have just transitioned to a
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> I also hope I didn't get your hopes up! - basically what I wanted
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> to say is that I have been teaching myself x-code / objective c
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> this year<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> and also plan to run an iPhone / iPad dev course in 2013 - I would
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> love to collaborate on something if you are interested?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> Adrian<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> Now that we have about 2250 iPads floating around the college, I
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> was thinking of implementing an "App Development" course at year 10
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> next year that will run for a semester. We have also got a lab of
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> 30 iMacs and was going to use them to create iPad apps (Using
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> XCode???). I was<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">>>>> wondering whether anyone does anything similar to this currently,
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