[Year 12 SofDev] Pondering SD U3O2

[Timmer-Arends]

Hello Mark

I think Adrain and Claudia have the right interpretation. The constraint of 
producing a software module suitable for implementation on a portable 
computing device is intended as a constraint on the user interface (and 
perhaps other bits as listed by Claudia and Adrian) NOT on the type of 
program to be written or on the programming language used. And it is this 
latter point that I think Adrian is trying to make when he writes "The 
program does not have to be implemented - just modeled."  - students might 
be required to write a game program that can be used on, say, a Palm Pilot. 
Instead of trying to come to grips with something like C as well as adapting 
it to PalmOS, they might write the program using VB; it would/should have 
the 'look and feel' of the Palm version but under the covers its just plain 
old VB - hence it is a 'model'.

Possibly a little dated, 
http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~winikoff/palm/dev.html contains a list of 
PalmPilot SDKs (Software Development Kits) and some discussion which could 
be of interest.

Regards
Robert T-A
Brighton SC