A case study of course design for software development on mobile phone

Author

Chen, Tianzhou ; Shi, Qingsong ; Lou, Xueqing ; Hu, Wei

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2010

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

64

Abstract

Mobile phones have been popular personal devices in recent years. They are used not only the communication tools but also an integrated platform with the support from powerful hardware. Rich applications are also provided for mobile phones. The problem of software development becomes more acute with the great advance of mobile phones and the applications. It is also a challenge on how to teach software development for mobile phones to the students. The operating system and the related APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) play an important role in this issue. In this paper, we describe a case study of course design for software development on mobile phones. We select OMS (Open Mobile System) and its APIS as the basic development system. The students can master the basic skills in mobile software programming. And our design can also connect the education with the needs of the industry.

Keywords

application program interfaces; computer science education; educational courses; mobile computing; mobile handsets; open systems; operating systems (computers); software engineering; application programming interfaces; communication tools; course design; mobile phone; mobile software programming; open mobile system; operating system; software development; Multimedia communication; Multimedia databases; Programming profession; Security; computer engineering; course design; mobile phone; software development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on

Conference_Location

Qingdao, ShanDong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7101-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MESA.2010.5552093

Filename

5552093