App (using a picture of them at a behind the scenes tour of the digital
environment at Carowinds amusement park and a sound clip from Finding Nemo).
They are moving from that to build an app called "Monster Spray" that I
built for iPhone (it is for my son - he is scared of monsters). Once they
build that, they will create educational apps of their own choosing.
Thanks for getting this all organized Fred!
BRG
Beth Lynne Ritter-Guth
English, Computer Science, and Robotics Teacher
Oak Hill Academy
CEO, Literature Alive! in Second Life
http://LiteratureAlive.wikispaces.com
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Seth Battis <seth@battis.net> wrote:
> I'm nearing the end of the first semester of a year-long iOS development
> class. It's a very fun, very small class -- two bright students, neither of
> whom has had any formal programming experience before (one had absolutely
> none, the other had taught himself ActionScript)... but both of them have
> been eager to dive in and get their hands very, very dirty. Week 2, I found
> myself explaining memory addresses, references and reference counting in
> more detail than at any point since college compsci exams, because the
> students wanted to know. So, short version: I've got an abnormally
> wonderful
> class.
>
> We've been using the Big Nerd Ranch iPhone book, which we have been _very_
> happy with. But it pre-supposes a fair amount of familiarity with either
> C/C++ or object-oriented programming in general. I've been filling in those
> gaps for the students as we go.
>
> With two weeks to go in the semester, with no formal programming experience
> between them, the students are about 75% of the way through writing an app
> to scrape the school website for homework assignments and then present them
> as a hierarchical list. (Phase 2, they hope, will be a full-blown to-do
> app.) It's been a combination of using the recipes from the book and doing
> a
> bunch of guided (by me) reading of Apple Developer docs and Stack Overflow.
>
> -- S
>
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