Cross-Platform Mobile App Software Development in the Curriculum

摘要

The Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana has offered courses in app development for mobile devices (e.g. smartphones) beginning in 2002. Teaching mobile app development courses present many challenges to educators given that mobile device technologies are changing at a blistering pace, and there is no clear smartphone market leader. In this paper, I present my experience teaching such courses over the past 10 years, suggest a new approach that uses cross-platform development tools, and describe the pedagogy I am currently using in my CIT 355 Software Development for Mobile Devices 1 course. Finally, I include discussion on why I plan to continue using this pedagogy with cross-platform development tools.