[Year 12 SofDev] App development Sorry for the x-posts!)

Wed May 23 14:18:58 EST 2012

me too
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!!

I would be happy to organise the collaboration if necessary - this woudl be an exciting project "going forward"

Andrew

Andrew Shortell
CRC Melton

shortell at get2me.net

On 23/05/2012, at 2:12 PM, Kent Beveridge wrote:

> Me too! 100% iPAD school here too now...plus PC's...
> Count me in!
> Kent
> 
> Sent from KB's iPAD.
> 
> On 23/05/2012, at 12:18 PM, "Travis Parker" <Travis.Parker at beaconhills.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> Kevork,
>> 
>> The thing with Adrian (And myself) is that our schools have invested a
>> large amount of time and money into iPad programs and I checked out
>> appinventor and it seems that they only export to android devices?
>> 
>> There seems to be a text on "App inventing for iPhones" by Graeme
>> Summers that I am ordering (Thanks Adrian) and a few of us are trying to
>> organise a new year 10 iOS app development course. If anyone is
>> interested please speak up!
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Trav
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au
>> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kevork Krozian
>> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:14 AM
>> To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] App development Sorry for the x-posts!)
>> 
>> Hi Adrian,
>> 
>>  This is all very useful to all of our colleagues.
>> 
>> I recently completed an Android app writing PD at Swinburne Uni Hawthorn
>> using appinventor ( see appinventor.org ) and found it very powerful and
>> effortless in transferring to a phone or sharing with other phones. For
>> those who don't have a phone an emulator will still allow testing of the
>> app on Mac or PC. The resources (software, textbooks, completed apps )
>> are free online. The programming environment is a "scratch" type with no
>> actual coding but a GUI to connect objects, add methods, change
>> properties and parameters. This would translate to a Yr 8 to 10 course
>> so much more easily than say writing code in XNA or in Objective C I
>> feel.
>> 
>> There are sections on using multi dimensional arrays, saving to a
>> database and much more. Is it starting to look like it could slot into
>> Software Development as a language ? Of course the coding would have to
>> be done in Java for it to be acceptable. There are efforts to provide a
>> java view of the Appinventor GUI see http://www.appinventor.org/roadmap
>> but that would need to be clarified for Units 3 and 4 Software
>> Development purposes.
>> 
>>   An equally useful discussion would be to compare the competing app
>> writing and programming options. eg. Cost of registering as a devloper ?
>> How much will students understand when writing code in a language like
>> Objective C or C# for that matter ?
>> 
>>   One of the most useful apps in this series I worked on was "Find my
>> car" which allows recording of the current location using the GPS
>> feature in the phone and then after moving to another location
>> requesting a map showing how to find the car again. This interfaced with
>> a voice feature where instructions are announced on how to find your way
>> back to the car or if they are in the same spot, the family members you
>> may have lost ......
>> 
>>   All very exciting ...
>> 
>> Keep well
>> 
>> Kevork
>> 
>>> Hi Travis,
>>> 
>>> Apologies for the previous email - I have just transitioned to a new 
>>> notebook and I had not set up my email signature yet!
>>> 
>>> I also hope I didn't get your hopes up! - basically what I wanted to 
>>> say is that I have been teaching myself x-code / objective c this year
>> 
>>> and also plan to run an iPhone / iPad dev course in 2013 - I would 
>>> love to collaborate on something if you are interested?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Adrian
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Adrian Janson B.Sc, Dip.Ed, M.Ed
>>> eLearning Coordinator
>>> Melbourne High School, Forrest Hill, South Yarra, Victoria 3141
>> Australia.
>>> Phone: 03 9826 0711 International: +61 3 9826 0711
>>> Fax: 03 9826 8767 International: +61 3 9826 8767
>>> E-mail: janson.adrian.a at edumail.vic.gov.au
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au
>>> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
>>> On Behalf Of Travis Parker
>>> Sent: Monday, 21 May 2012 1:56 PM
>>> To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
>>> Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] App development Sorry for the x-posts!)
>>> 
>>> Dear All,
>>> 
>>> Now that we have about 2250 iPads floating around the college, I was 
>>> thinking of implementing an "App Development" course at year 10 next 
>>> year that will run for a semester. We have also got a lab of 30 iMacs 
>>> and  was going to use them to create iPad apps (Using XCode???). I was
>> 
>>> wondering whether anyone does anything similar to this currently, or 
>>> has any ideas on what to include. I'd be happy to share and compare 
>>> notes and experiences with any interested parties.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Trav
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Travis Parker
>>> Head of ICT and E-Learning
>>> Beaconhills College
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