4995-4: Web, App, and Mobile Programming

General Info

About this course

Note: course enrollment requires permission from the instructor. This isn't a typical Columbia course, so please read this web-page, and these slides, to see what the course is about, and what must be done to enroll.

This course is experimental, in the sense that students will get hands-on experience, and it's a new type of course for the instructor (and possibly Columbia CS?).

The main goal of the course is for each student to do an individual project that involves a substantial CS component and developing a web, mobile, or app interface that implements the CS component. The focus of the course is to develop the project.

The course will begin with a lecture format (presumably with lots of online demonstration where applicable), but will then transition to discussion of projects, including design, debugging, challenges, etc.

Since this is the first time the course is being offered, it is very unstructured, and its direction depends upon what the students in the class want to cover, and the general knowledge of those of us in the classroom.

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of C, C++, or Objective-C. Knowledge of Java not ideal but acceptable, but be prepared to learn C++ and Objective-C.
• Knowledge of html (although most likely learnable during the term if not known in advance)
• Background with data structures, algorithms, and some general CS knowledge

Grading

• 70%: Project, which will be evaluated and graded in two parts:
  • 50% design (documentation of the design)
  • 50% of the performance of the execution of the project.
• 30%: Class participation

Course Intro Slides