The Future of Learning: MOOC vs Private vs Traditional Education
This is an idea I have had for a long time (since my wife and I started Burton’s Garden of Schools 20 years ago):
Create a venue that would allow people to learn to develop their knowledge and skills, for free or a low cost.
MOOC
I read in the Chronicle of Higher Learning that a few universities [...]
Developing iPhone/iPad/Android applications with Corona: Orientation Change
In this final “Hello World” with Corona, we will look at how to allow for orientation change in our app.
First, please recognize that this is for a general rotation. Seldom will this be sufficient to handle all rotation needs of your app. You will usually need to code in the screen size and where you [...]
Developing iPhone/iPad/Android Apps with Corona: Adding Sound Effects
What’s a game without sound? Sound and music can turn a boring humdrum game or movie into a riveting adventure, if done correctly!
In this tutorial we are going to show the process to add a sound effect to a Corona app.
When working with Corona, you are encouraged to use the CAF file type for your [...]
Developing iPhone/iPad/Android Games with Corona: Creating Animations
In this demonstration, we will take our existing Hello World project and add some animation.
To get started, we have the existing code:
local textObj = display.newText(“Hello World!”, 50, 50, nil, 24)
textObj:setTextColor( 255, 255, 255)
local mybutton = display.newImage( “button.png” )
mybutton.x = display.contentWidth/2
mybutton.y = display.contentHeight-75
local h = textObj.height
local w = textObj.width
function mybutton:tap( event )
textObj.x = math.random(w/2, display.contentWidth – [...]
Android App Development: Getting Started
Recently my family became a two mobile platform household: iPhone and Android. As an educator and developer, I am interested in supporting all platforms equally. So, to support those members of my family (and anyone else interested in developing for the Android platform) I am starting a series of articles on Android App development.
I have [...]
