Spring 2009

 6 students in a directed study  Just iPhone Development  Put up a few flyers  Students sought this out – all eager  You will probably have a lot of interest

 High student interest, but…  Set pre-requisites appropriately  I did:  Data Structures required  So, through Programming 3, and Upper division status

 Remind the students that there will be a LOT of outside reading and self-study  Things change so quickly it can become frustrating

 Started out trying to get our footing  Don’t underestimate project planning  Calls for a big application we could sell  Was going to lead to uneven task distribution  Is this OK?  Everyone responsible for their own app  But it doesn’t have to be huge

 Software Requirements Documents  Told students I wouldn’t hold them to it, just wanted to give feedback and see what they were up to  Changes in the market / existing apps / platform make it difficult to plan ▪ Already new functionality in SDK.

 We had a grad student who had the start of a UNT portal  Maps, bus schedules, etc.  3 students decided to add to his UNT portal  Me: Great, but each student must do their own functionality or ‘module’

 Teamed with the business school, UNT Computing center, SOVA for design  We had 20 people at the meeting  It was going to be great  Then…

 The grad student and the business student fought over control and eventual ‘revenue’.  They don’t speak anymore  In the end, the students did well – the application was good  What could have been?

 The other 3 students had projects they were interested in individually  Time clock for independent contractors  Real-estate buddy  Book meta-search

 I think applications specific to an occupation are a good idea.

 Just grade the executable  Make yours better than the others  Don’t turn in 80% of this

 Finish 100 % of this

 80% of this  But, that’s OK

 More slides  More organization from the start  Better preparation for self-study  Enforce the individual application requirement from the start  More frequent milestones

 Group projects  Greed  Over-enthusiasm  Changing technology  Somebody posts your app tomorrow  Apple restrictions  Sometimes they don’t seem to know what’s allowed