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Mobile Dev? #16

Open MargeRosen opened 11 years ago

MargeRosen commented 11 years ago

Mobile Dev is huge, so it would be great to introduce students to Objective C and/or RubyMotion with a small project during the last moth of the program.

eliseworthy commented 11 years ago

Yup, this would be awesome. I haven't talked to either of the instructors, but I can see a really neat final/close to final project using RubyMotion. I think it'll be addressed primarily in weeks 13-24.

RobinClowers commented 11 years ago

RubyMotion is a pretty niche, I question how useful it will be for students... I think teaching straight iOS would be a better idea, but even then, it's another whole language / runtime / platform to learn. Focus is a feature.

jags14385 commented 11 years ago

As part of the project we could teach them to build apis & the create the presentation layer/native app in ObjectiveC, which would talk through the apis... This way they would be able to support multiple devices across mobile OS

dpersing commented 11 years ago

From a front-end perspective, I think a mobile mindset can be introduced by including responsive techniques from the start in the CSS unit, as well.

asalkey commented 11 years ago

What about PhoneGap or something similar?

jefflembeck commented 11 years ago

From a front-end perspective, I think a mobile mindset can be introduced by including responsive techniques from the start in the CSS unit, as well.

Agreed in so many ways.

kerrizor commented 11 years ago

:+1: to responsive design

I'd welcome a unit on mobile development, if someone would like to propose an outline for it. I think RubyMotion would be fine, as it leverages what they've already invested time into learning, but would also be open to seeing a proposed curriculum for an ObjC week-long project, especially if it comes towards the end of the 6 months and can be leveraged as a compare-contrast lesson.

jags14385 commented 10 years ago

We should also consider a week long project on Android also.

OpenSorceress commented 10 years ago

Any thoughts on developing realtime apps for mobile / device agnostic?

jags14385 commented 10 years ago

Was having a similar discussion with @jlembeck .. So do we add Java to the curriculum ( in some scope) so that we could teach the basics & have an android development week ?? and followed by something similar for IOS ..

By doing so, we would allow them to switch between languages & do a compare - contrast lesson .

RobinClowers commented 10 years ago

I know I sound like a broken record, but we I think we need to focus the curriculum on a core skill set. If we are lucky we can turn out competent junior web devs, but if we try to teach multiple mobile platforms it will just dilute the web stuff.

jcaudle commented 10 years ago

:+1: what @RobinClowers said.

jefflembeck commented 10 years ago

Also agree with @RobinClowers here.

kerrizor commented 10 years ago

I agree. I'd like to have guest speakers in other technologies come in (PHP, Java, Elixir, mobile development, DB experts..) and give a lecture or talk on their field, but later on in weeks 13-24.

kerrizor commented 10 years ago

...would anyone like to propose either a lecture or schedule for a few days worth of curriculum on this?