First Mobile Seminar Scheduled

 

Save the date!!!

 Thursday, Nov 18th,  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Our first 

Mobile 

Programming 

Seminar.  

The details are still being worked out, but the phones are in  and we're looking forward to making sure that 'Droid Does'!

As you can see several of the students are examining the new phones, putting in the batteries and micro SD cards.

Thanks to Motorola and Sprint for the phones.

Android 1.5 is on the phones.  They do not have cell service, but they can be put  on the wireless network so newly made apps can be tested.

Learn more about Mobile Phone programming at our first seminar.
Alumni, USF staff and other interested individuals are always welcome at our events.

 

Making an app for that!

Good news!

Thanks to the efforts of our Unversity of St Francis IS department, Motorola, in conjunction with Sprint, has donated 5 mobile phones to the Computer Science department so that students will be able to work on app creation. These are on the Android platform, so they're open source.

We will start with short seminars for the Spring semester and look at offering a topics course in Fall, 2011 in conjunction with a planned ACCA (Associated Colleges Chicagoland Area) seminar. This way we'll not only have hands on practice, we'll take advantage of several industry experts.

If you're thinking of taking the "Developing for the Android" course in Fall, 2011, be sure and take the Comp 140, Computer Science I - C++ in the Spring, 2011 semester, if you haven't already taken it or the Comp 253, Java course. A solid base of a programming language will be needed. Android's software stack will use the Java SDK (Software Developer's Kit) as the programming language.

Sprint is the mobile carrier used by University of St. Francis. Thank you to Motorola and to Sprint for furthering our educational goals and many thanks to Mark Snodgrass and Tim Archer of the USF IS department for working out the details to help our students.