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

Wed May 23 15:06:33 EST 2012

Hi Andrew, Kent and others,

Travis and I spoke about this - this morning (that is - wanting to form a
group that could build up a course and share materials, etc).  I think it's
an excellent idea!  I am happy to keep track of this - if others are
agreeable?  Perhaps we could set up a collaborative space somewhere on the
Internet - do such spaces exist yet?  (lol - sarcastic voice for that last
bit!)

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
Website: http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au
Blog: http://jansona.edublogs.org

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Andrew Shortell
Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2012 2:19 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] App development Sorry for the x-posts!)

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

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[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
Website: http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au
Blog: http://jansona.edublogs.org

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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
( 1300 002 225 ext 3016
or Direct Dial (03) 5945 3016

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