During this semester (Spring 2012) I deliver an academic course dedicated to the Android platform. The course takes place in HIT as part of HIT Computers Science BSc academic program. The topics this course covers include the following: Introduction Application Resources The Intent Concept User Interface Controls Layout Managers Menus and Dialogs Touchscreens Style Definition App Widgets [...]
This coming spring semester (Spring 2012) I am going to deliver in MTA a course that teaches how to analyse, design and develop the code running on the server side for working with a database. The course includes the following main topics: Relational Databases No SQL Databases Objects Relationship Mapping Most of the slides and [...]
I teach 3 electable academic courses in HIT Computer Science department: Java SE, Android and Java EE. The first covers the core topics in Java and Scala and sets the foundation required to take the two other courses. On January 18th I will take part in a public meeting hour through which lecturers answered questions about [...]
I chose to write down this post for the benefit of my students who submit projects in their courses and for the benefit of my assistants who mark projects submitted by my students. There are many ways for evaluating a coding project submitted by students. The following is my personal suggestion. I will be more [...]
Stanford University allows people from all over the world to take the Introduction to Databases course over the web. The course is offered for free (for a limited period of time). This is a great opportunity for every person who is not familiar with how databases work to acquire this knowledge for free. I believe [...]
The PHP Cross Platform Web Applications course I teach in HIT coveres some of the newest web technologies. The next meeting covers Sencha Touch. It is a Java Script library that allows us to develop web applications optimized for touch screen devices, such as mobile telephones and tablets. In order to assist my students with [...]
I chose to write this post for the benefit of all people who are not familiar with hybrid applications for mobile telephones. In the past, applications for mobile telephones were developed similarly to applications we install on our personal computer. When the case was iPhone they were developed in Objective-C. When the case was Windows [...]
The Azure platform allows us to store data through several “no sql” services. One of them is tables. Each table holds entities. Unlike tables on relational databases, these tables don’t follow a schema. Each entity they hold can be with a different number of properties (similarly to MongoDB). The following video clip shows how simple [...]
I have recently completed to cover the ASP.NET Data Binding topic in my ASP.NET course. You can find its community version available for free personal usage at www.abelski.com. The following video clips were prepared in order to explain the basics of this topics. Both the source code shown in these clips and the slides can [...]
During this coming summer semester (Summer 2011) I will deliver in HIT an academic course dedicated to the Android platform. The course belongs to HIT Computers Science BSc academic program. The topics this course covers include the following: Introduction Application Resources The Intent Concept User Interface Controls Layout Managers Menus and Dialogs Touchscreens Style Definition App [...]
