interesting projects using Google APIs?

[Wesley C (Google)]

Dear faculty & staff,

It's been nearly half a year since Google I/O while featured an exciting set of product releases and new API features. I'm writing to ask the group whether any of you have done any interesting research or side projects this past summer or fall using Google developer technologies that you'd like to share. Perhaps you've even designed (and/or delivered) a course a Google API. We'd like to know what they are and what your experience has been. Your feedback will help us improve the products for and the global developer community! Feel free to reply here or contact me privately if you prefer.

Cheers,

-- Wesley

+WesleyChun / @wescpy | Google Developer Relations | wesc...@google.com | Core Python

[Adam Porter]

Hi all,

I'm currently running CMSC436 Programming Handheld Systems at the University of Maryland.

I'm doing it as a flipped classroom, and am using Google Course Builder as the platform for videos
and activities.

It's currently running at: https://learn-android.appspot.com

The system seems to meet my basic needs, but I have a number of issues with ease of use.

Am quite interested to see what will happen with respect to the partnership with EdX.


Going forward - I willing be giving a related course, Programming Handheld Systems with Android, through the
Coursera platform. The course will start on Jan. 6, 2014 and as of today there are around 50K students signed up.
One very interesting twist is that I'll be offering this course as part 1 of a 2-part sequence, with the second course
offered by Doug Schmidt and Jules White of Vanderbilt University.

The URL for the course is: https://www.coursera.org/course/android

Thanks,
Adam Porter

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Handheld systems, such as smartphones and tablets are now the most common way for people to access and interact with computing services.
The demand for application development skills is therefore growing at a breathtaking pace. These skills, however, are multi-­‐ faceted, requiring
students to master computer science and engineering principles, to learn the details of specific mobile application platforms, and to design artistic
and engaging user interfaces that respond to how, where and why handheld applications are used.

This course will cover the fundamental programming principles, software architecture and user experience considerations underlying handheld
software applications and their development environments. To bring these concepts alive, the course will involve in-­‐depth, hands-­‐on examples,
implemented in the Android Platform, the fastest growing segment of the handheld system user base. Students will apply these teachings, also using
the Android Platform, in laboratory projects and in a large-­‐scale semester project.

Note: This course is part of a cross-institution course sequence.

This course and another, led by Drs. Douglas Schmidt and Jules White of Vanderbilt University, have been designed to complement each other.
Therefore, some of the programming assignments and the course project for both courses will be coordinated. This course focuses on handheld
systems and the design of user-facing applications, and will be taught first. The Vanderbilt University course, Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures
for Concurrent and Networked Mobile Devices, will focus on systems programming topics, such as operating system and background processing,
networking, and computing cloud integration, The Vanderbilt University course is currently scheduled to be taught in late Spring 2014.

Nevertheless, each of these courses stands alone. Students are not required to take both. Those who do, however, will gain a much more detailed,
end-to-end understanding of handheld systems and their applications.

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