Learn to write apps for mobile devices - no exp needed. Enter into an extremely hot new career path with new job postings for App developers soaring over 200% from last year!
CIE Bookstore is creating a 6 part series covering Programming Mobile Apps. It is designed for both the beginner and advanced programmer with special modules created for three major smartphone platforms: Google Android, Apple iOS and Microsoft Windows Phone 7.
You can complete the whole 6 module course or only take the parts you need to learn! Each module comes with a professional certificate of completion, online exams, textbook and instructor help.
1. ANSI C - available 3/31
10 lesson certificate course. Instructor help and online exams. Tution: $275
This course confidently guides beginning programmers through the C language.
- Includes updated programs and descriptions that reflect C99 standards, including new data types and features supporting the newer C standard
- Contains a new Common Compiler Errors section in each chapter designed to help students avoid coding problems
- Features Case Studies that deal with real-world programming applications
- Offers multiple sections dealing with input-data validation
- Stresses the modular nature of the C language and details the creation of a personal library
Learn about the following topics:
PART ONE: FUNDAMENTALS
1. Introduction to Computer Programming
2. Getting Started in C Programming
3. Processing and Interactive Input
PART TWO: FLOW OF CONTROL
4. Selection
5. Repetition
6. Modularity Using Functions: Part I
7. Modularity Using Functions: Part II
PART THREE: COMPLETING THE BASICS
8. Arrays
9. Character Strings
10. Data Files
PART FOUR: ADDITIONAL TOPICS
11. Arrays, Addresses, and Pointers
12. Structures
13. Dynamic Data Structures
14. Additional Capabilities
15. A Brief Introduction to C++
16. Fundamentals of C++ (Online Only)
17. Additional C++ Class Capabilities (Online Only)
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2. PYTHON PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS - available 3/31
10 lesson certificate course. Instructor help and online exams. Tution: $245
Course Description:
Learn all of the important topics in CS1 and CS2 in one volume. This course uses the Python programming language, which is both easy to learn for beginners and scales well to advanced applications.
- Uses a just-in-time approach, with no new concept introduced before it is needed to solve a problem.
- Early emphasis on problem solving and algorithm development.
- Covers multiple design strategies, including top-down design and recursive design with functions, object-based programming, and object-oriented design.
- Engages students' interest with modern applications such as graphics, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), networks, and image processing.
- Walks students through the development of complete programs in numerous case studies.
- Covers basic software development tools for design, testing, and documentation.
- Provides exercises at the end of each section to reinforce students' understanding of each concept.
- Includes sets of programming projects to give students practice in problem solving.
- Offers complete source code for all program examples at the publisher's Web site.
Learn about the following topics:
- Data Types and Expressions.
- Control Statements.
- Strings and Text Files.
- Lists and Dictionaries.
- Design With Functions.
- Simple Graphics and Image Processing.
- Design with Classes.
- Graphical User Interfaces.
- Multithreading, Networks, and Client/Server Programming.
- Searching, Sorting, and Complexity.
- Tools for Design, Documentation, and Testing.
- Collections, Arrays, and Linked Structures.
- Stacks & Queues.
- Linked Lists & Recursion.
- Hierarchical Collections: Trees.
- Unordered Collections: Sets and Dictionaries.
- Graphs.
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3. Programming with Mobile Applications: Android, iOS & Windows Phone 7 - available 3/31
10 lesson certificate course. Instructor help and online exams. Tution: $225
Learn about the following topics:
- Installation and Setup
- Developing for Small Devices
- Best Practices for Small Device Programming
- Google Android: App Inventor
- Google Android: Motorola MOTODEV Studio
- Apple iOS
- Microsoft Windows Phone 7
- Web Applications
- Cross-Platform Development with PhoneGap
Course Description:
Learn how to create native apps across platforms and Web apps for today's most popular smartphone platforms.
This unique, hands-on tutorial approach combines a clear presentation with numerous screenshots and step-by-step instructions to guide students in developing applications for Google™ Android™, Apple® iOS, and Windows® Phone 7.
Students learn to create native and Web apps for each platform. As readers develop identical apps for each platform, they can compare platforms to determine which they prefer. The course's complete coverage ranges from platform architecture to native app life cycle management with an emphasis on fundamental programming concepts, including optimization and object-oriented design, where appropriate.
The course's modular approach offers the flexibility to present up-to-date content in a way that best supports your needs. Thought-provoking assignments and author-written supplements further support the presentation.
Coverage of multiple platforms emphasizes the portability of apps that students create and encourages a deeper understanding of programming principles to benefit students throughout their careers.
Pick a particular Mobile platform from the follow 3 courses and really hone your programming skills.
4. iOS iPhone and iPad Apps for the Absolute Beginner - available 3/31
10 lesson certificate course. Instructor help and online exams. Tution: $225
The iPhone is the hottest gadget of our generation, and much of its success has been fueled by the App Store, Apple’s online marketplace for iPhone applications. Over 1 billion apps were downloaded during the nine months following the launch of the App Store, ranging from the simplest games to the most complex business apps. Everyone has an idea for the next bestselling iPhone app—presumably, that’s why you’re reading this now! And with the popularity of the iPad, this demand will just continue to grow.
So how do you build an application for the iPhone and iPad? Don’t you need to spend years learning complicated programming languages? What about Objective-C and Cocoa touch ? The answer is that you don’t need to know any of those things! Anybody can start building simple apps for the iPhone and iPad, and this book will show you how.
This course walks you through creating your first app, using plain English and practical examples using the iOS 5 software development platform and more. It cuts through the fog of jargon and misinformation that surrounds iPhone and iPad application development, and gives you simple, step-by-step instructions to get you started.
- Teaches iPhone and iPad apps development in language anyone can understand
- Provides simple, step-by-step examples that make learning easy, using iOS 5
- Offers videos that enable you to follow along with the author—it’s like your own private classroom
Learn about the following topics:
- Get both yourself and your computer set up for iPhone and iPad application development
- Start by making small changes to existing applications to build your knowledge and experience before creating your own applications
- Follow steps in plain English to build simple apps and get them working immediately
- Style your application so that it looks good and users can easily navigate through it
- Make use of the iPhone’s touch screen and accelerometer
- Use shortcuts and cheat sheets to create apps the easy way
Who this book is for
If you have a great idea for an iPhone or iPad app, but have never programmed before, then this book is for you. You don’t need to have any previous computer programming skills—as long as you have a desire to learn, and you know which end of the mouse is which, you’ll be fine.
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5. Google Android - available 3/31
10 lesson certificate course. Instructor help and online exams.
Tution: $225
6. Beginning Windows Phone 7 - available 3/31
10 lesson certificate course. Instructor help and online exams.Tution: $225
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handsets have injected a new vibrancy into the smartphone marketplace and provided bold new opportunities for the Microsoft development community.
This course has been written to help you identify those opportunities and to learn the skills you’ll need to harness them. It covers the very latest developments in the field, including the extended APIs offered in Microsoft’s automatic platform update, so you'll have timely, accurate information at your fingertips.
Beginning Windows Phone 7 Development starts with the basics, walking you through the process of downloading and setting up the right development tools, including Visual Studio, Expression Blend, Silverlight SDK, and Windows Phone SDK.
It then takes you step-by-step though the development process as you build and deploy a working application, complete with a sophisticated user interface. Finally, you'll receive step-by-step instructions on selling your applications through the Windows Phone Marketplace.
What you’ll learn:
- How to create effective networked applications
- How to leverage your phone’s GPS capabilities from within your application
- How to interact with the phone’s built-in functionalities (camera, contacts, maps, accelerometer, video and web browser to name but a few)
- How to construct highly graphical and responsive user interfaces quickly and easily using these features
- How to package and distribute your applications for both personal distribution and commercial sale via the Windows Phone Marketplace
Topics Covered:
- Introducing Windows Phone 7 and the Windows Phone Platform
- Building Windows Phone 7 Applications
- Using Cloud Services As Data Stores
- Catching and Debugging Errors
- Packaging, Publishing, and Managing Applications
- Working with the Accelerometer
- Application Bar
- WebBrowser Control
- Working with Controls and Themes
- Integrating Applications with the Windows Phone OS
- Creating Trial Applications
- Internationalization
- Isolated Storage
- Using Location Services
- Media
- Working with the Camera and Photos
- Push Notifications
- Reactive Extensions for .NET
- Security
Who this book is for:
This book is for anyone interested in developing applications for the Windows Phone 7. You might be an existing .NET developer looking for a new creative angle, or perhaps an iPhone or Android developer looking for a new opportunity.
If you have an understanding of basic .NET coding practices, then this book is for you.
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