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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Ada-Developers-Academy

Mobile Dev?

Open MargeRosen opened this issue 11 years ago • 15 comments

Mobile Dev is huge, so it would be great to introduce students to Objective C and/or RubyMotion with a small project during the last moth of the program.

MargeRosen avatar Oct 01 '13 16:10 MargeRosen

Yup, this would be awesome. I haven't talked to either of the instructors, but I can see a really neat final/close to final project using RubyMotion. I think it'll be addressed primarily in weeks 13-24.

eliseworthy avatar Oct 02 '13 23:10 eliseworthy

RubyMotion is a pretty niche, I question how useful it will be for students... I think teaching straight iOS would be a better idea, but even then, it's another whole language / runtime / platform to learn. Focus is a feature.

RobinClowers avatar Oct 03 '13 04:10 RobinClowers

As part of the project we could teach them to build apis & the create the presentation layer/native app in ObjectiveC, which would talk through the apis... This way they would be able to support multiple devices across mobile OS

jags14385 avatar Oct 03 '13 13:10 jags14385

From a front-end perspective, I think a mobile mindset can be introduced by including responsive techniques from the start in the CSS unit, as well.

dpersing avatar Oct 03 '13 15:10 dpersing

What about PhoneGap or something similar?

asalkey avatar Oct 03 '13 17:10 asalkey

From a front-end perspective, I think a mobile mindset can be introduced by including responsive techniques from the start in the CSS unit, as well.

Agreed in so many ways.

jefflembeck avatar Oct 03 '13 18:10 jefflembeck

:+1: to responsive design

I'd welcome a unit on mobile development, if someone would like to propose an outline for it. I think RubyMotion would be fine, as it leverages what they've already invested time into learning, but would also be open to seeing a proposed curriculum for an ObjC week-long project, especially if it comes towards the end of the 6 months and can be leveraged as a compare-contrast lesson.

kerrizor avatar Oct 05 '13 00:10 kerrizor

We should also consider a week long project on Android also.

jags14385 avatar Oct 08 '13 20:10 jags14385

Any thoughts on developing realtime apps for mobile / device agnostic?

OpenSorceress avatar Oct 11 '13 00:10 OpenSorceress

Was having a similar discussion with @jlembeck .. So do we add Java to the curriculum ( in some scope) so that we could teach the basics & have an android development week ?? and followed by something similar for IOS ..

By doing so, we would allow them to switch between languages & do a compare - contrast lesson .

jags14385 avatar Oct 11 '13 07:10 jags14385

I know I sound like a broken record, but we I think we need to focus the curriculum on a core skill set. If we are lucky we can turn out competent junior web devs, but if we try to teach multiple mobile platforms it will just dilute the web stuff.

RobinClowers avatar Oct 11 '13 17:10 RobinClowers

:+1: what @RobinClowers said.

jcaudle avatar Oct 11 '13 18:10 jcaudle

Also agree with @RobinClowers here.

jefflembeck avatar Oct 11 '13 18:10 jefflembeck

I agree. I'd like to have guest speakers in other technologies come in (PHP, Java, Elixir, mobile development, DB experts..) and give a lecture or talk on their field, but later on in weeks 13-24.

kerrizor avatar Oct 11 '13 18:10 kerrizor

...would anyone like to propose either a lecture or schedule for a few days worth of curriculum on this?

kerrizor avatar Nov 17 '13 17:11 kerrizor