week 10

We are entering November, the last month that will have cs371p classes. In this week, the company’s talk was really impressive. The representative of Mutual Mobile, mainly talked about changes. Comparing to previous talks, I am much more interested in this topic because I am a huge fan of mobile. I won’t miss any news of iOS/Android and their mobile devices. It is cool to hear some opinions about the changes and how should we handle the changes in mobile era, especially after I developed my own Android app this semester. Although it may be a little too far away for me to consider the architecture of my android development, learning some knowledge about it is still useful during I am learning the fundamentals.

It is a good question to think how to deal with the disappearance of service like Google Reader, if it is used in your application. The story just teaches us to make the services in a relative separate places so that we can easily get rid of it and choose some other services to replace it if necessary.

Another interesting point is the shift of major platform like iOS 7. I like the opinion that such a dramatic shift is not only a task to developers, but also a chance to do something. It is well known that currently some big application developing company dominants the app store and it is very hard for individual developer to achieve success. When a change happens, it is the individual developer’s chance to quickly adopt it and make the application more appealing to users. That could be the best way to attract new users.

In this week, we also talked about the project 4, Darwin. It is totally different from previous projects and we are supposed to have more object oriented design. Although we read many articles teaching us what is object oriented and the basic principle of object oriented, completing a project with object oriented guideline will be much more helpful. We need to think over the design before writing code. Pay attention to the use of getter and setter, which should be discouraged.

Fight.