Intersession class teaches the art of Facebook applications
"To our knowledge we were the only class teaching programming for the Facebook platform. In three weeks we were able to pump out apps. That's a ridiculously short time to learn and produce a product," Reiley said.
One application called "Admirer" allows users to view all their friend's pictures on one page. Other applications include "TextTrade," which helps students find each other when they are buying and selling books and "FaceMerge" which shows what the faces of two different people would look like when combined. "Photo Search" allows users to search Facebook for pictures that include themselves and specific friends.
"How people are using the Web is different, it's now a virtual world. How we teach programming should change as well. While it's great to have foundation classes there's all this new web 2.0 technology that should be incorporated in the curriculum and we hope classes like ours can be used as inspiration to teach other classes around the world," Reiley said.
The Digital Media Center will showcase the class's applications during their block party and students will have access to the Computer Science's resources to continue to improve their applications.
One application called "Admirer" allows users to view all their friend's pictures on one page. Other applications include "TextTrade," which helps students find each other when they are buying and selling books and "FaceMerge" which shows what the faces of two different people would look like when combined. "Photo Search" allows users to search Facebook for pictures that include themselves and specific friends.
"How people are using the Web is different, it's now a virtual world. How we teach programming should change as well. While it's great to have foundation classes there's all this new web 2.0 technology that should be incorporated in the curriculum and we hope classes like ours can be used as inspiration to teach other classes around the world," Reiley said.
The Digital Media Center will showcase the class's applications during their block party and students will have access to the Computer Science's resources to continue to improve their applications.
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