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The following courses and modules are designed to help you easily integrate mobile devices into your current Computer Science Curriculum. Select from six or 12-week courses and/or choose from one of our six plug-in modules to supplement your existing courses.
All courses and modules can be taught at second, third or fourth year level and most include: Lesson Slides, Labs, Tutorials, Quizzes and Assignments.
Mobile Application Development with Java ME and BlackBerry API
Length of Course: 12 Weeks
Introduces students to the special needs required for programming mobile applications with Java ME and BlackBerry API. Students learn the challenges at a technical and business level, and how to overcome them. Some programming experience with Java is required.
Mobile Web-based Application Development
Length of Course: 6 Weeks
Students learn to create web-based mobile applications using markup and scripting languages. Topics covered include: web-based mobile applications, markup languages, form handling and validation, database connectivity, sessions, and AJAX. In addition, you'll learn about BlackBerry Widgets.
Software Engineering
Length of Module: 3 Weeks
Students explore the challenges involved in designing applications for mobile devices and how to overcome them, development processes and models, design patterns, and testing.
Web Services
Length of Module: 3 Weeks
Web services are integral for networking on the Web. Students will be introduced to the concept of web services and how they can help alleviate some of heterogeneity problems that occur in the mobile market.
Game Development
Length of Module: 3 Weeks
Module gives students a greater understanding about how to develop mobile games for various mobile devices while taking into account various hardware restrictions.
Information and Network Security
Length of Module: 3 Weeks
Module focuses on the security of mobile devices — specifically the BlackBerry smartphone, and developing secure mobile applications.
Operating Systems
Length of Module: 3 Weeks
The design and capabilities of a Mobile Operating System is very different than a general purpose OS running on desktop computers. This module covers the following Mobile Operating Systems: Palm, Symbian, Linux, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone, and Google Android.
Database Systems (new)
Length of Module: 3 Weeks
This module focuses on databases for mobile devices and gives students a greater understanding about the different models for storing data on mobile devices and how to work with them.