{"id":524,"date":"2010-05-21t06:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-21t06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/cft\/?p=524"},"modified":"2010-07-29t18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29t18:11:55","slug":"vu-engineering-students-create-mobile-apps-for-fun-profit-and-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2010\/05\/vu-engineering-students-create-mobile-apps-for-fun-profit-and-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"vu engineering students create mobile apps for fun, profit, and credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"layers screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.layersforiphone.com\/images\/screen1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"307\" \/>this spring, the vanderbilt school of engineering&#8217;s magazine ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/magazines\/vanderbilt-engineering\/2010\/04\/gotow\/\">a story profiling ben gotow<\/a>, a senior computer science major (now graduated, presumably) who has designed some very successful iphone apps, including the drawing apps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netsketchapp.com\/\">netsketch<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layersforiphone.com\/\">layers<\/a>.\u00a0 gotow designed those apps on his own, but he was also a student in an engineering course that focused on mobile app development:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>in addition to creating the applications, gotow is one of more than 25  students in an innovative yearlong class launched by the school of  engineering. developed and taught by research assistant professor of  computer science jules white, ms\u201906, phd\u201908, the course applies existing  computer theory to new real-world models of networking and focuses on  the creation of smart phone technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>engineering students interested in mobile app development have also started the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/apps\/\">vanderbilt mobile application team<\/a>, and they&#8217;ve been busy designing mobile apps for a variety of campus organizations.\u00a0 this initiative seems to be a useful blend of curricular and extra-curricular learning, tied into student interests and career preparation.<\/p>\n<p>(there&#8217;s a cft connection here, too!\u00a0 jules white was a <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/programs\/teaching-as-research-fellows-program\/\">teaching-as-research  fellow<\/a> while a grad student at vanderbilt.)<\/p>\n<p><em>image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layersforiphone.com\/\">layers<\/a> screenshot<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this spring, the vanderbilt school of engineering&#8217;s magazine ran a story profiling ben gotow, a senior computer science major (now graduated, presumably) who has designed some very successful iphone apps, including the drawing apps netsketch and layers.\u00a0 gotow designed those apps on his own, but he was also a student in an engineering course that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,85],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}