CSEP590B/F Smartphone Mobile Computing – Winter 2011


Homework for week #2

Each of the three parts below should be in a separate 1 page PDF file (one for each of the three parts below) and submitted using the dropbox tools.  The three files should be named as follows: HW2-1-yourlastname.pdf, HW2-2-yourlastname.pdf, and HW2-3-yourlastname.pdf and collected into a single ZIP (or otherwise compressed) file named HW2-yourlastname.zip.

 

1.      Prepare a 5”x7” card with information about you.  Use the card presented in class as an example (see lecture slides).

2.      List you three favorite mobile applications.  Describe their entries for the classification table we used in class on January 3 (see lecture slides).  Also, explain why you think these applications are truly “mobile apps” and not simply retread desktop/laptop apps.

3.      Read the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_application_development and follow the links on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7 development down a few levels.  Describe three major differences you could find between the development environment for these three smart phone platforms and why you believe these to be significant.

 


 

Grading criteria

 

2 pts (++): For full descriptions

1 pt (+):  If details were missing, lack of depth, or if part of the HW was missing or incomplete (including a photo)