Scott Cutler
Professor in the Practice of Computer Technology
Department of Computer Science
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering cutler@rice.edu
10/24/12
Wednesday 2-3:30, DH 1046

 Events of the Week
 HTML 5
 Final Project Status
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Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Google (next slide)
$499 Microsoft Surface preorders slip to three weeks
U.S. Galaxy S3 owners, your wait for Android 4.1 is almost over
Apple ordered by U.S. court to reveal iPhone profit margins
Microsoft training staff to explain Windows 8 versus RT
Newsweek to shut down print edition and go all digital
Google stock drops after missing analysts' expectations
LG tapped for the next Google Nexus?
Google offers low-budget ARM-based Chromebook
Gene Frantz, TI Principal Fellow and DSP visionary, to retire in
February
T-Mobile said to launch Galaxy Note 2 'phablet' on October 24
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Windows Phone 8 Launch Set for Oct. 29
Windows 8 release date October 26
Windows 8, Surface Tablet Release Date Set for Oct. 26
Apple's big 'little' event: Join us now for live blog
Apple trots out 13" MacBook Pro with Retina; upgrades Mac Mini, iMac
Apple event gallery: iPad mini, new hardware unveiled
Apple gets official with iPad mini; upgrades iPad again
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 Victor Acuna
 Ryan Artecona
 Gbenga Badipe
 Peter Chang
 Joan Chao
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 Alex Chiu
 Heaven Chen
 Lingo Dai
 Weibo He
 Sahil Hingorani
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 Abdul Nimeri
 Bill Robertson
 Frank Salinas
 Tyler Siegert
 Austin Witt
 Matthew Zhao
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Lecture 1 - 8/22/12 Introduction
Watch before: None
Assignment: #1 - Calculator
Assignment due: Friday, 8/31 6:00 am (Thursday 30:00)
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Lecture 2 - 8/29/12 Assignment 1 issues and questions from videos
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Watch before:
Assignment:
1, 2
#2 – Function Calculator
Assignment due: Friday, 9/7 6:00 am (Thursday 30:00)
Lecture 3 - 9/05/12 Assignment 2 issues and questions from videos
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Watch before:
Assignment:
3, 4 (demo part)
#3 – Graphing Universal Calculator
Assignment due: Tuesday, 9/18 6:00 am (Monday 30:00)
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Lecture 4 - 9/12/12 Assignment 3 issues and questions from videos
Watch before:
Assignment:
4 (post demo), 5, 6
Continue with #3 – Graphing Universal Calculator
Assignment due: Tuesday, 9/18 6:00 am (Monday 30:00)
Lecture 5 - 9/19/12 Assignment 3 issues and questions from videos
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Watch before:
Assignment:
Watch 7 before class, 8 after class
#4 – Flickr Top Places
Assignment due: Friday, 10/05 6:00 am (Thursday 30:00)
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Lecture 6 - 9/26/12 Assignment 4 technology preview
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Watch by 10/3: 8, 9 very beginning of 10 (for Assignment 4)
Assignment: #5
– Flickr Map Places
Tasks 3, 4 and 8 are optional for extra credit (required for A+)
Assignment due: Thursday, 10/11 6:00 am (Wednesday 30:00) (10/12 OK)
Lecture 7 - 10/03/12 Assignment 5 technology preview
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Watch before:
Assignment:
8, 9 very beginning of 10
1: #6 – Flickr Core Data
- To be broken into required and optional parts
- Optional part required for A+
2: Final Project Topic (due before next class)
Assignment due: Friday, 10/19 6:00 am (Thursday 30:00)
Lecture 8 - 10/10/12 Assignment 6 technology preview and SQL
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Watch for #5:
Assignment:
10 (after Tab Bar), 11, 12
Final Project Proposal
Assignment due: Tuesday, 10/23 6:00 am (Monday 30:00)
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Lecture 9 - 10/17/12 iOS 6, Server technology
Watch for #6:
Assignment:
13, 14 iOS 6 app
Assignment due: Friday, 10/26 6:00 am (Thursday 30:00)
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Lecture 10 - 10/24/12 HTML 5
Watch before: Optional 15, 16
Assignment: Major Final Project Feature
Assignment due: Friday, 11/2 6:00 am (Thursday 30:00)
Lecture 11 - 10/31/12
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Android, Windows Phone 8
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Watch before:
Assignment:
Optional 17, 18
Continue working on Final Project
Assignment due: Wednesday, 11/28 2:00pm
 Lecture 12 - 11/7/12Android vs. iOS vs. Windows Phone group debate
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Assignment: Continue working on Final Project
Assignment due: Wednesday, 11/28 2:00pm
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Lecture 13 - 11/14/12 Individual meetings on Final Project
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Assignment: Continue working on Final Project
Assignment due: Wednesday, 11/28 2:00pm
Lecture 14 - 11/21/12
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No class, but continue on final project
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Assignment: Continue working on Final Project
Assignment due: Wednesday, 11/28 2:00pm
 Lecture 15 - 11/28/12 Final Presentations
 Assignment: Document Final Project
 Assignment due: By time assigned for COMP 446 final (there is NO final exam)
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9/19 9/26 10/03 10/10 10/17 10/24 10/31 11/7 11/14 11/21 11/28 12/5
- #4 10/05
- #5 10/12
- FP Topic 10/10
- #6 10/19
- FP Proposal 10/23
- Major Feature 11/2
- Individual Meetings 11/14
- Final Presentation 11/28
- Documentation due Finals Day
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Future Personal Computing Technology
 How to be a Chief Technology Officer
 Wednesdays 9:30 – 11:00, 3CR
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Each student gets to pick a personal computing technology topic which they will learn over a 5 or 6 week period
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Weekly one-on-one meetings to rapidly learn topic
Session with presentation expert
Student presents topic to the class
Course gets very high ratings based on unique approach and current topics.
Desired class size of 10. Hard limit of 11.
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 Watch Optional CS193p lectures #17 and #18
 Final Project difficult feature app due next Friday, 11/2 6:00 am
 Any test app which shows you understand how to use the most difficult feature of your final project.
 Next week’s lecture – Android
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 Difficult Feature App 11/02/12
 App of your choice that only needs to demonstrate understanding how to use your difficult feature. Not a complete app. No need for it to be of any use.
 Remember that the majority of course grade comes from final project
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SEC - 10/24/12 iOS 6
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 More of an external, feature upgrade than a significant update to existing code
 Many features help integrate with iCloud ands social media.
 And of course, there are the new maps
 Although the interface is compatible.
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Bring the power of the amazing new Maps engine into your app. With Map Kit, you can automatically take advantage of the beautiful Apple-designed cartography and vector-based interactivity. Users can also discover your routing apps right within Maps. So when users are looking for specific ways to get around, whether by subway, ferry, bike, or walking, Maps will show your app as an option.
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Give users even more ways to connect and share by adding Facebook support to your app. With single signon capability, Facebook sheets, and the new Social framework, users can post status updates to their account seamlessly, and easily share photos with friends, right from your app.
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Passbook gives users a whole new way to organize boarding passes, tickets, gift cards, and loyalty cards.
You can bring up passes in your app with Pass Kit APIs or send them via email or post them on the web. You can set items to appear at certain times or locations and update items with push notifications.
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Take fun to a whole new level with the latest features in
Game Center. Make any game a multiplayer game by turning high scores and achievements into challenges with friends. With Game Groups, you can enable multiplayer games and share leaderboards and achievements across iOS and Mac versions of your app. And now it’s even easier to integrate Game Center features into a single view in your app.
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Your app can now access and share to-do lists in the
Reminders app. With the Event Kit framework, your app can create and modify reminders, assign properties like due dates and priorities, and even set location and timebased alarms.
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Use powerful new features of the built-in camera. New
APIs support real-time video stabilization, an improved
LED flash, and face detection and display. You can get reports of dropped frames during capture and leverage new utilities to map UI touches to focus and exposure commands.
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In-App Content Purchasing
Enable users to purchase and download apps, music, books, and other iTunes content without ever leaving your app.
In-App Hosted Content
Host InApp Purchase content on Apple’s servers, so you can easily add, manage, and deliver In-App
Purchase content for your app.
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Safari continues to support the latest web standards and technologies. New features in Safari on iOS 6 let you create audio for interactive web applications using
Web Audio API, use advanced color and pixel effects with CSS filters, and upload videos and images from the
Photo Library.
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 Features to help support the increased number of screen resolutions more easily.
 Auto Layout
 Enhancements to Segue Identifiers
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HTML5
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 1991 HTML
 1994 HTML 2
 1996 CSS 1 + JavaScript
 1997 HTML 4
 1998 CSS 2
 2005 AJAX
 2009 HTML 5 + CSS 3
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 HTML started as a static markup language
 JavaScript, CSS, HTML evolution and server backends made web pages more alive
 But developers wanted full application ability
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 Where HTML had set standards, not everyone followed the standards.
 Microsoft’s browser chose to do what most developers wanted – at the expense of following the standard.
 While many things were improved, sites which depended on nuances didn’t.
 Sites appeared differently based on browser.
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 Microsoft creates Active-X
 Great for a Microsoft world
 Security disaster
 Flash player adds great functionality and cross platform
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But it creates a non-standards based OS inside the browser outside of browser control
Security disaster and performance sink
 Microsoft offers Silverlight
 Cross platform, high performance
 Still a proprietary system within browser
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 HTML 4 is 15 years old – and a lot has happened on the web in 15 years
 Address most of the features provided by Flash and
Silverlight within open web standards.
 Supported (in various degrees of readiness) by all major browsers for both desktop and mobile
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 Canvas
 Scalable Vector Graphics
 Storage
 Drag and Drop
 Connectivity
 Geolocation
 Native <audio> and <video> tags
 Typography and presentation
 Offline
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 Apple HTML Showcase
 HTML 5 Rocks ( slides )
 The Wilderness Downtown
 Hongkiat
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 Layout engine used to render webpages
 WebKit powers Apple Safari and Google Chrome
 Wide use by other platforms as well
 Consistent with HTML 5 and CSS 3
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 iOS Apps need to go through App store
 Apple is no longer the only game in town
 Third party pre-compilers and universal app generators like Appcelerator add cross-platform support but not open standards or as widely supported as browsers.
 HTML 5 address openness and cross platform
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 HTML 5 retains distribution control
 HTML 5 has wide platform support
 HTML 5 typically easier to develop
 Native apps higher performance
 Native apps can take better advantage of platform – both OS capabilities and hardware features.
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