Introduced in the second semester of my computer games programming course at the University of Derby, Mobile Devices focused on writing applications and games for platforms such as mobile phones and PDAs. For this module we would be using J2ME and the Netbeans development environment to make our applications and so would be writing code in Java. This is the first time I have ever used Java but do have experience with C# which is very similar syntactically to Java. There are some slight differences when using Java as opposed to C# but nothing incredibly difficult to be concerned with.

The Projects

For this particular there was 2 pieces of work to comit as our final hand in to make up my final grade. The first assignment required me to write a paper constrasting and comparing the Java ME Netbeans platfrom to another one of my choice. The paper should compare and contrast these two platforms, specify appropriate strengths and weaknesses of both systems (this may include user interface issues, but should not focus intently on these), and propose a choice of platforms based on some specific intrinsic quality of one system (not a user interface feature, but some internal functionality that one system has over the other).

The other project required my to write a game or application suitable for a mobile device that supports J2ME. This required a full written proposal and a development log supporting the application.