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METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OP DENVER

Office of Academic and Student Affairs

REGULAR COURSE SYLLABUS

College of: Letters, Arts. and Scien£Cfl

Dcpn1•tment: Mathematic1!J and Computer Sciences
Prefix & Course Number: CS 3013 Crossllsted WJth*: _
Course Title: Software Develonment for Mobile Devices
Transcl'ipt Course Title (30 characters): Sftware Dev fot· Mobile Devices
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Required fol' Concentration: __ Elective: X Set·vice Course: __
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Credit Hours: .4 (4.+.Q) Schedule Type: 1 Gmde Mode: L

Face-to-Face or Equivnlent Hours per course:
· Internship__ Pl'acticum __ Other (please specify type and hours):__
Lecture 60 Lab __
Additional Student Work Hom·s per course: 120

Vnriable topics umbrella coua·se: No X Yes __ If Yes, number of credit hours allowed __
Specified repeatable course: No X Yes __

Prerequisite(s): CS 2050 with a grade of "C" or bette1', or pel'mission of instructor

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Corequisite(s): none
Prerequisite(s) 01· Corequisite(s): __
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Prerequlsitc(s): CS 2050 with a grade of "C" 01· better
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Registration restrictions: Level UG Class ___Program/Major __ Student attribute __

Catalog Course Description:

Mobile-device programming must address issues related to the charactel'istics of each device. The mobile device
might have a small screen; limited memory; no hard drive; multiple radios; effectors such as vibrator, sound, and
light; uses a multi-touch interface; and incorporates hardware sensors such as GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope,
compass, and camera. In this course the students investigate issues involving mobile platforms and develop
software for mobile platfotms using multiple programming technologies.

Specific Variable Topics Course Description (if applicable, umbrella course description included above):

Required Reading and Other Materials will be equivalent to:

Bl'ian Hardy and Bill Phillips (2013), "Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide", Big Nerd Ranch
Guides

Current appropriate papers such as:

Jon Oberheide and Farnam Jahanian, When Mobile is Harder Than Fixed (and Vice Versa): Demystifying Security
Challenges in Mobile Environments. in The Eleventh Intemational Workshop 011 Mobile Computing Systems and
Applications February 22, 20 I 0

R.C. Weih, Jr., M. Gilbert, J. Cross, and D. Freeman, Accuracy Assessment of Recreational and Mapping Grade
GPS Receivers, in Joumal of the Arkansas Academy of Science, Vol. 63, 2009, pp163-168

iOS User Interface guidelines:

https://developer.apple.com/library/iOS/documentation/userexperience/concept1.1aVmobilehig/

Designing User Experience of Mobile operator Apps - Windows Mobile User-interface Guidelines:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30697

Android Design Guidelines: http://develope1·.android.com/design/index.html

Tizen UX Guidelines: https://developer.tizen.org/documentation/ux-guide

Albrecht Schmidt, Context-Aware Computing, in 1lteE11cyclopediaofHtu11a11-Compurerl11temcli01\2nd Ed,Chapte1· 14,

http://www.interaction- design.org/encyclopedia/context-aware_computing.html

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Specifk, Measur11ble Student Behavioral Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:
1. load original programs into a mobile device
2. write a mobile-device progrnm that uses sensor input
3. write a mobile-device program that manages its own memory
4. write a mobile-device prngram that interacts with a program on the same device
5. write a program that interacts with a prngram on another device
6. develop a website that uses capabilities of mobile devices
7. articulate human-computer interface issues involved with designing software for a small touch screen
8. analyze security issues related to mobile-device software
9. mticulate issues related to context-sensitive computing

Detailed Outline of Com·se Content (Major Topics and Subtopics):

I. Overview of mobile computing

II. Programming for a modem environment (For example: Android, iOS, Tizen, Windows, ...).
III. Event-driven programming
IV. Mobile hardware technology
A. Sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS, thermometer, light sensor, humidity sensor, etc.
B. Media input: camera, microphone, etc.
C. Radios: WiFi, cell, Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE, etc.
D. Touch Sensors
E. Response mechanisms: vibration, sound, light, etc.
V. Programmatic use of sensors and response mechanisms
A. Motion sensing
B. Location sensing
C. Touch sensing
D. Initiating hardware action programmatically
VI. Application in teraction: write an application that interacts with another application such as a web
browser, mapping application, photogrnph application, etc.
VII. Security and privacy for mobile devices
VJII. Device cooperation: write an application that interacts with another device such as: a remote computer,
a remote sensor, another mobile device, etc.
IX. Context awm·e computing
X. Webpage development fot· mobile devices: Using an apprnpriate technology (such as JQuery Mobile),
develop a website that uses some capabilities of the mobile device such as location sensing, motion
sensing, etc.

Evaluation of Student Pe1·formance:

At least three of the following:

1. Programming assignments and projects.
2. 1 or more Mid-term exams
3. Writing assignment
4. Final exam

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