CSC 145: Undergraduate Special Topics: Programming Mobile Devices

Objectives:

• Understand the limits of the computation power, storage capabilities and input/output features of small devices such as modern cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
• Recognize the challenges posed by them for software development.
• Obtain an overview of the difference between programming for large and small devices.
• Create simple applications to illustrate the concepts of abstract and discovered components in graphical user interfaces, commands, and event handling.
• Learn to use the Internet, the phone network and Bluetooth capabilities of the device for networking and messaging.
• Learn to use the limited forms of persistent storage available in these devices. Learn to create simple handheld games.
• Learn to create multimedia applications.