SENG 440: Lecture 4 – Task Scheduling and Activity Lifecycle
Dear students, Last time we saw how activities and layouts get married and make the screens of our apps. Today, we extend our discussion of both of these big ideas as write an app that shows the time in two different places on Earth. We’ll look at ConstraintLayout, updating the user interface without user interaction, […]
Intervals in Deltaphone
For a few years now, schools and industry have been telling kids that they can code. They say the jobs are plentiful, and the salary is enviable—the workforce is waiting. The nobler agents of educational reform will also tell our kids that programming is a creative exercise that will make them better thinkers in other […]
SENG 440: Lecture 3 – Activities and Layouts
Dear students, Now that we’ve examined Kotlin as a standalone language, it’s time to write our first Android apps. We will write a few today: one to emit Morse code’s dots and dashes and one to show the time in two different timezones. Before we forget, here’s your TODO list for next time: Work through […]
Funeral of Trite Ideas
The art teacher at my son’s elementary school once held a special ceremony called the Funeral of Trite Ideas. My son and his classmates said goodbye to some friends that they had known for years in their drawings: stick figures, flat outlines of cars, suns with smiling faces. I am considering holding my own Funeral […]
SENG 440: Lecture 2 – Conditionals, Functions, and Classes
Dear students, Last time we introduced Kotlin as our tool for developing Android apps this semester. This time we continue that discussion but raise the complexity a couple of notches. We’ll look at conditional statements to choose between values and code, functions and classes to manage complexity, and lambdas to pass code around to other […]
SENG 440: Lecture 1 – Mobility and Kotlin
Dear students, Welcome to SENG 440! I’m visiting the University of Canterbury thanks to Erskine Fellowship Program. When I’m not in Christchurch, I live and work in the north central part of the United States in a state called Wisconsin. I’m glad to be here and to be teaching this course in particular. I’ve taught […]
SENG 440: Project 1
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Flatcaps in Libigl
Madeup’s dowel solidifier has one job: thicken a sequence of line segments into a solid. But what if the sequence isn’t a polyline, but rather a branching structure like a tree or a fork? One could model each branch as a separate dowel and hope that nobody looks too closely at the joints, but that’s […]
SENG 440 – Topics in Mobile Computing
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