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Learn Mobile Application Development Textbook
Texas has recently added Mobile Application Development to the approved curriculum for high school students beginning in the academic year 2012-2013. This is a very exciting development for high school students in Texas and, assuming other states follow suit, across the U.S. and potentially the world (okay, yes, I like to think big!).
After carefully combing through the curriculum I found that my Beginning Mobile App Development with Corona textbook, which was written for the college age, is very close to meeting the majority of requirements set forth by the Texas Education Agency curriculum 126.39 (as approved 9/2011).
By late spring I will have a textbook that meets or exceeds all of the curriculum requirements provided by the T.E.A. The working title for the textbook is Learning Mobile Application Development. The text will introduce programming concepts via making mobile apps (a previous course in programming is not required by T.E.A.), how to identify the needs and create the user interface for apps, provide opportunities for students to collaborate on the projects, conduct research in the mobile industry, provide many opportunities to exercise their critical thinking skills, learn about their responsibilities as digital citizens, and gain additional technology skills.
Of course, the textbook isn’t exclusively intended for Texas high school students. I am writing in a way that will hopefully make the book accessible to anyone who would like to learn how to create mobile applications but has no previous programming experience.
If you have any questions or comments, please, drop me a line!
Mobile App Development with Corona Now on Kindle
After a great deal of demand (and insistence from my wife) and reformatting assistance from my editor/daughter, I’ve been able to make the first 12 chapters of Mobile App Development with Corona available for the Kindle device through Amazon. Due to how Amazon structures it’s pricing, I was forced to break the book into parts. [...]
Major update to Texture Packer
There has been a major update to the Texture Packer software produced by Andreas Löw. You might recall that I have mentioned Andreas’ software previously to simplify making sprites for your mobile apps.
There are 25 new features included in Texture Packer including:
New layout of the left side panel allowing easier change of exporter
Auto update sprite [...]
ReLIVE 11: Researching Virtual Worlds
I’ve just returned from the ReLIVE 2011 conference (pronounce RelIve as in “It’s a-live!”, not re-leve, as in “I want to live”). ReLIVE is the Researching Learning In Virtual Environments held in Milton Keynes, England at the Open University. This is the second conference, the first held in 2008. ReLIVE (if you had not guessed [...]
