By By Jenna Grasso, Staff Writer
Would you want to learn how to develop apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad? Dr. Oskar Pineno is a professor in the psychology department, is looking to teach a class that teaches students how program and develop apps for the social sciences, especially for psychology.
Dr. Pineno is exploring the possibility of teaching this course. Depending on the interests of students the class should start either the summer or fall 2012 semester. For students today, being able to create your own apps for your iPhone or even iPod would be something to take advantage of.
This class would show a student how to develop and program an app for iPhones, iPod Touch, and iPad. In just a few hours students could have a new app on their phone, and it would be something they could use anytime they want. Taking this class could “open a large amount of doors to new possibilities,” says Dr. Pineno. This course can also bring upon different professional advantages.
A teenager will always know how to navigate their way around a cellphone, but most teenagers will not know how to develop and program apps for themselves and possibly other people to use. Although this course seems fun, and rewarding which it is, the course will also involve a great deal of effort, time and patience. With patience, time and effort effective and creative looking apps are created.
This class is a class with people who have experience with computers, especially with the Mac OS X. Once in this class the things you will learn would be the Objective-C programming language, Apple’s Foundation and UIKit Frameworks (Cocoa Touch API), and the Xcode program. This will teach you how to use Apple products more in depth, and will help you in programming an app. Along with learning all of these elements, once a student is finished with the class, they will be able to continue developing iOS apps on their own.
What teenage wouldn’t want to create their own apps for the technology they use everyday? iOS programming is a class that all students should look into, and learn more about.
The more interest students show, the more chance this class will have of running. All students should go to the link http://opineno.polldaddy.com/s/ios and take the survey for the class. This will show how many students are interested. Inventing and learning to program apps is a once in a lifetime opportunity! Why not get credit for doing it?