COMP 1951 is a special delivery of COMP 1950 designed for the Full-time Mobile App Tools Associate Certificate program. Students in this section must supply their own Mac notebook computer installed with the current OS X system and application software in order to participate. This hands-on course follows on from COMP 1850 Web Development and Design 1. Students who already understand HTML and CSS will explore web development in more depth with new topics and techniques. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the latest technologies including HTML5 and CSS3 for mobile web sites. There is a focus on responsive design and mobile presentation through the use of Media Queries. Adding behavior to web sites using JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery is introduced as well as building dynamic and semantically marked-up content with Search Engine Optimized (SEO) pages. Labs and exercises follow industry standard web development methods. Students will learn to create templates for content management systems for both on desk-tops and mobile devices. Additional topics will include: leveraging Server Side Includes (SSI) for re-usable code, source control for managing code and web-based fonts for professional typography. COMP 1951 may be used in place of COMP 1950 in the BCIT Computing “Applied Web Development” and “Web and Mobile Application Development” associate certificates. By the end of this course successful students will be prepared to move on to COMP 1952 JavaScript for Mobile App Tools and COMP 1953 Android and iOS Mobile App Tools. Prerequisite: COMP 1850 or equivalent knowledge of building web pages and web sites with HTML5, CSS3, plus the ability to use a Mac with the current OS X.

COMP 1952 is a special delivery of COMP 1911 designed for the Full-time Mobile App Tools Associate Certificate program. Students in this section must supply their own Mac notebook computer installed with the current OS X system and application software in order to participate. This intensive, hands-on JavaScript workshop continues on from COMP 1951. Students with a solid understanding of HTML5 and CSS3 are introduced to client-side browser scripting with JavaScript. Labs, exercises and assignments focus on the theory behind client-side web scripting and how to manage interactive sites that use JavaScript to generate and manipulate a page's HTML and CSS. Participants learn to download and install several free, platform independent tools. Topics include: object detection, DOM manipulation, timers and animation, event handling, functions (named and anonymous), jQuery introduction, form validation, timers and simple animations. Mobile App Tools students who have also completed COMP 1951 Web Development and Design Mac 2 may move on to COMP 2051 Web Development and Design 3. Upon successful completion of COMP 1952 participants will be able to use a Mac to write browser independent scripts that meet official ECMA standards. Prerequisite: COMP 1951 or equivalent knowledge of building web pages and web sites with HTML5, CSS3, plus the ability to use a Mac with the current OS X.

Systems Analysis and Design for Mobile Apps is tailored to the Mobile App Tools Associate Certificate. Students in this face to face section must supply their own MacBook Pro with current OS in order to participate. The focus is on best practices in Business Analysis and Systems Design; the concepts, processes and tools used to plan and develop mobile information systems to industry standards. Participants learn how to ask implicit questions, to create and document communication plans and to make better decisions prior to creating an information system. They learn to work in groups to provide detailed written materials and make verbal presentations of their mobile application designs. Beginning with an introduction to the SDLC, Software Development Life Cycle, students work in teams to initiate the system process, analyze problems, discover requirements and create a logical design. The process starts with a definition of the business opportunity and progresses to implement a sustainable and scalable mobile design that can adapt to changing requirements. Topics include: techniques used in the discovery of business requirements, traditional approaches to data and process modelling. There is an overview of Object Oriented Modelling techniques using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) as well as an introduction to Project Management. Agile frameworks including XP, Extreme Programming, and SCRUM are also introduced. By the end of this course, successful participants will be able to use industry standard tools and methods to discover requirements, design an interface and create documentation that acts as a blueprint to implement a mobile device information system Prerequisite: COMP 1951 and COMP 1952 or equivalent knowledge.

This course and has been designed specifically for the Mobile App Tools program. Students in this section must supply their own Mac notebook installed with the current OS X, a tablet, a SmartPhone, an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, and an Apple iOS Developer Program membership in order to participate. The course will focus on creating mobile content using the digital publishing workflow, UI/UX design, adding interactivity and creating and deploying mobile apps. Students start by creating a UI/UX design flowchart conveying a mobile app user flow, as well as organizing, documenting and illustrating wire frames to match their mobile design. Labs and projects focus on creating and managing digital content to build and deploy articles and folios. Topics include: Creating icons and splash screens, adding smooth scrolling text, adding slide shows, creating multi-state object buttons, adding hyperlinks, creating scrollable frames, creating image sequences and importing video and music. Students will set-up and configure a Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) account, provision iOS and Android mobile devices, create an App ID, create Apple development and distribution certificates, submit a mobile provision file and use DPS App Builder to create and test iOS and Android apps in iTunes and Google Play. Prerequisites: COMP 1850

This course focuses on using Adobe Photoshop for Mobile Image Design. It has been designed specifically for the full time Mobile App Tools program. Students in this section must supply their own Mac notebook installed with the current OS X system plus subscribe to the Adobe Creative Cloud in order to participate. Students begin with studying the work flow of mobile UI/UX design and how the design process is involved from product concept to product release. Discussions include theoretical differences between UI /UX design and flowcharts and wireframes. There will be a focus on current industry best practices across IOS and Android platforms. Design topics include: Colour use, graphics, transitions, spacing and visual balance when designing for mobile devices as well as creating accurately pixel sized, correctly layered and placed designs for mobile content. By the end of this course, successful participants will be able to use Photoshop tools to visually create a functional mobile application with efficient user flow that would be ready for client approval and be used as a pre-production prototype.

Continuing on from COMP 1951 and COMP 1952, this hands-on project based course is an introduction to building cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android. Participants use web scripting and hybrid technologies in a Macintosh environment and must supply their own MacBook Pro with current OSX plus an Android and iOS mobile device. Students with a solid prior scripting knowledge in HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, who are not actual object-oriented programmers, will learn to design, build and deploy iOS and Android mobile solutions using, jQuery Mobile and other scripting tools in environments like PhoneGap. Labs and exercises focus on how students may create, test and implement their designs for entry-level mobile apps for both iOS and Android devices. Each student will learn to design and build mobile apps that meet App Store publisher requirements. Topics include: a comparison of web based and hybrid mobile architectures, how to set-up development environments, how to specify, design and build mobile apps to industry standards. Students will individually and in teams to create actual mobile app projects. They learn to choose from a variety of toolsets for platform independent mobile app production depending on the needs and scope of a particular project. Successful participants will be able to create well designed entry level Android and iOS mobile apps that could be published to online repositories. Prerequisite: COMP 1951 and COMP 1952 or equivalent knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, FTP and JavaScript, plus supplying your own MacBook and mobile devices.

This course explores important design techniques to make better mobile apps. Students will dive into the techniques that great designers use to plan and prototype amazing apps before any code is written. This is a UX (User Experience) driven design course built for aspiring mobile designers. Good UX is an essential part of any well designed app, it will specifically inform how the UI (user Interface) looks and feels. With this knowledge, students will create interactions, user-flows, wireframes, digital prototypes, and finally a fully interactive user interface. The course will help guide students by brainstorming their ideas and concepts for the app they will be creating and prototyping. Topics also include UI design aspects such as typography, color, layouts, tactility, and affordances. Towards the end of the course an industry panel will review and provide critical feedback for quality assurance, design, and usability. Prerequisites: COMP 1850 and MDIA 1180

Nothing tells a story like video. This course emphasizes creating a video that provides the power, sight, sound and motion that moves and influences audiences. Students will use their mobile phones or a traditional camera, and integrate mobile video into their apps. Topics explored include the techniques needed to create a high-impact video that may be used across a variety of platforms including: YouTube, Facebook, Vine, as well as marketing and corporate communications. Students will examine the process for creating video content including; conceptualizing, scriptwriting, storyboarding, production planning, lining a script, preparing a shot list, and creating a shooting schedule. In post-production students will import a variety of media formats into Adobe Premier, work with layers, add effects, and build a rich soundscape, which includes mixing dialogue, sound effects and music together. Prerequisites: COMP 1850

In this hands-on course, you will create and design scalable computer graphics with Adobe Illustrator that require creativity and imagination. You will use multiple art boards, layers, and sub-layers to organize your artwork. As well, you will use drawing tools, drop down menus, and floating panels to create a series of projects. You will use the pen tool to draw precise, offset paths, and different path widths. We will emphasize both linear and radial gradients, gradient meshes and blends for visual effects, and the effective use of colour. You will use both horizontal and vertical alignment tools and distribute your artwork evenly. You will create canisters using 3D revolve, symbols, and mapping tools.

This course will provide a 360-degree view of how users interact with mobile apps and how their experiences can be measured, tested, and optimized to increase engagement, retention, and monetization. The course focuses on both how to draw users towards apps through mobile analytics and app store optimization techniques. Students will set up unique events for different interactions to funnel creation, segmentation and user flow analysis so that users will be able to analyze their user base at a macro and micro level. Once the baseline metrics and key performance indicators are established, this course will teach students how to setup A/B and multivariate testing in order to quantify the impact of variations in an app with the aim of improving the user experience and lifetime value. This course will teach best practices to drive app downloads and distribution.

This hands-on course expands on the skills and knowledge that gained in Adobe Illustrator 1 by using different tools, drop-down menus, and panels to create a more complex series of projects. To complete the projects, you will use a perspective grid for creating 3D artwork that fades to a vanishing point. You will create a clipping mask, rotate objects around a fixed point, create patterns, use different drawing modes, use the scissors tool to cut and join paths, use pathfinder tools to divide graphics, and transform and move objects precisely on both a horizontal and vertical axis point. You will work with live corners, use key objects for aligning graphics, create colour groups, and use brushes to paint and spray graphics for visual effects. Prerequisites: MDIA 1160