ACM – Louisiana Tech University

Welcome

Posted by: ltuacm on: October 1, 2008

Welcome to the blog of the ACM chapter at Louisiana Tech University. This will be updated frequently to reflect our current projects, events and meetings.

First ACM meeting of Winter 2008-09

Posted by: ltuacm on: December 14, 2008

The first meeting of the Winter quarter was held last Thursday, 11th December 2008 at Nethken Hall room number 140. In the meeting we announced our plans for this quarter including the programming competition, robotics projects and social activities. Here are some of the pictures from the meeting:

Praeses visit

Posted by: ltuacm on: October 29, 2008

Flyer

Flyer

The main point of today’s meeting was to discuss about the basics of Android and iPhone programming.

The meeting started at 6:00 pm:

Presentation on Android Programming by Himanshu

  • The environment – Eclipse(http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) and Android SDK(http://code.google.com/android/download_list.html)

  • How to install Android SDK Plugin for Eclipse (Website information)

  • Brief introduction of creating and running Android project in Eclipse

  • About the API

  • Hello World example on the Android simulator

  • Using XML to write user interface

Presentation on IPhone Programming by Chuka

  • Introduction to objective C

  • Compiling objective C codes

  • A brief intro to object oriented programming

  • A brief intro to the programming environment, files used to write the code.

  • Hello World Example on the IPhone simulator

The meeting ended at 7:00 pm.

The next meeting will have more interactive programming workshop. ACM will try to arrange the meeting in the Mac Lab in Nethken Hall, so that people have access to the mac operating system. ACM will also try to invite Dr. Per Kjeldas to the meeting.