Lingras P., Triff M., Lingras R. Building Cross-Platform Mobile and Web Apps for Engineers and Scientists: An Active Learning Approach

Cengage Learning, 2015. — 370 p. (PDF) + Code. — ISBN10: 1305105966, ISBN13: 978-1-305-10596-6.Cross-platform application design provides an excellent starting point for mastering application development in this new book.You can introduce today’s most popular technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, Node.js, JSON, localStorage, sessionStorage, NoSQL using MongoDB, SQL using MySQL, templating using handlebars, and maps. An app-centric view emphasizes subsets of these technologies to guide students in developing non-trivial apps. The apps serve as models for numerous projects from various application domains, while detailed outlines present potential course projects. Apps continue to evolve, but the technologies in this book form the backbone for future cross-platform app development. Students learn to work with all major mobile and web platforms as this book’s active learning approach asks students to type code in parallel as the apps are developed. Meaningful exercises further encourage students to change code and evaluate resulting app behavior.Features:
Unique approach emphasizes cross-platform app development. Students gain a solid understanding of effective app design and development with this book’s strong cross-platform starting point.
Active learning approach encourages hands-on coding. The chapters build upon one another to engage learners with an interactive presentation. Students type code in parallel to developing incremental app features.
Interactive exercises prompt modification and experimentation with code. These exercises encourage students to make changes to the code and examine the resulting app behavior as well as the impact to other app-projects.
Book addresses today’s most popular technologies. The authors have covered the apps that are likely to be key in app development for the foreseeable future. The book addresses HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, Node.js, JSON, localStorage, sessionStorage, NoSQL using MongoDB, SQL using MySQL, templating using handlebars, and maps.
Book’s app-centric view guides learners in mastering key skills and development techniques. Using an effective app-driven focus throughout, the authors assist students in identifying the manageable subsets of key technologies.
Book presents apps that can serve as models for app development. The apps throughout provide exceptional models for apps that can work in a variety of application domains.