Overview

Welcome to today's session. We hope that you learn a little bit of programming involving mobile phones (this combines software, networks and hardware -- much like digital engineering taught at Victoria).

Getting Started

• Hello World!

Guessing Game

• Making Decisions

• Input and Output

• Talking to the User

Global Positioning Services

• Using Phone GPS Services

Mobile Communication

• Bluetooth Chat

Acknowledgements

I have made heavy use of Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 2.6 as the basis of my exercises and I acknowledge the work of by Josh Cogliati and his colleagues in producing his tutorial. I also made heavy use of David Bau's Learning to Program with Python.

The code included in the examples is public domain.

Other stuff

• scripts.tar: some scripts simplifying interfacing with the Android phones.

In Development

One and Two Dimensional Barcodes