Android applications supporting the teaching and learning process

The traditional blackboard remains an important teaching tool through and inwhich the basic concepts of different teaching subjects can be explained. On the otherhand, we live in a time when technology has become an inherent aspect of our life, and wecannot ignore its potential role in teaching and in the teaching and learning process. Smartphones and other mobile devices could help us in the further development of distancelearning and in a more efficient and qualitative communication between the students andthe instructor. As we will see in a practical application described in this article, the mobiledevices could help us in the personalization of the portals that already exist in schools,thus making possible their adaptation and response towards specific requests of instructorsand students. Such applications in a massive scale condition changes in the educationprocess starting from the elementary and secondary school and continuing in High Schooland University. Programming should become an essential teaching and learning subjectstarting gradually from elementary levels during the early stages of education towardsmore advanced levels in higher education

An Approach That Integrates Android Application With Google Scripts, Solves Different Problems Of Emergency Character

The several Cloud technologies, and their services extends the space of problems that can be solved by them in different fields. The problems are different, but often they represent the same scenario from the perspective of their solution by the cloud technologies and their integrations in different applications. Many situations can be adapted to this scenario: some users send their data into a central Google spreadsheet and a manager follows this spreadsheet. There are specific situations where we are not much interested on the storage of the data, but on the momentarily evidence of them and getting some emergency conclusions. An approach is adapted to this scenario. The approach essence is: an Android Application calls a Google script. The Google script plays the role of a web application, which provides the communication of the Android application with the Google server making possible to send some data on a spreadsheet from the Android user interface

What Does Playing Games Teach Us About a Student\u27s Ethical Life?

Most of our students play video games. A substantial percentage of our students is required to take a computer ethics course before graduation. Both ACM and ABET require some form of computer ethics. This paper addresses gaming ethics as a subset of the computer ethics course. Specifically it considers the case of Grand Theft Auto (GTA), one of the most successful and most criticized game franchises. Through interviews with computer science students the study looks at mainstream reaction to GTA and finds that computer science students, probably one of the more sophisticated groups of gamers, have sometimes surprising ethical views about the GTA franchise. What implications does this have for the study of computer ethics

A Investment Preliminary Study for the distribution of Internet, in the rural areas of Kosovo

According to daily reports, the income from internet services is getting lower each year. Landline phone services are running at a loss, whereas mobile phone services are getting too mainstream and the only bright spot holding together cable operators (ISP) in positive balance is the income from broadband services (Fast internet, IPTV). Broadband technology is a term that defines multiple methods of information distribution through internet at great speed. Some of the broadband technologies are: optic fiber, coaxial cable, DSL, Wireless, mobile broadband, and satellite connection. The ultimat e goal of any broadband service provider is being able to provide voice, data and the video through a single network, called triple play service. The Internet distribution remains an important issue in Kosovo and particularly in rural zones. Considering the immense development of the technologies and different alternatives that we can face, the goal of this paper is to emphasize the necessity of a preliminary study of such investment and to give an experience in this aspect. Because of the fact that in this investment are involved many factors related to population, geographical factors, several technologies and the fact that these factors are in continuously change, the best way is, to store all the data in a database and to use this database for different results. This database helps us to substitute the previous manual calculations with an automatic procedure of calculations. This way of work will improve the work style, having now all the tools to take the right decision about an Internet investment considering all the aspects of this investment

RoADS: A road pavement monitoring system for anomaly detection using smart phones

Monitoring the road pavement is a challenging task. Authorities spend time and finances to monitor the state and quality of the road pavement. This paper investigate road surface monitoring with smartphones equipped with GPS and inertial sensors: accelerometer and gyroscope. In this study we describe the conducted experiments with data from the time domain, frequency domain and wavelet transformation, and a method to reduce the effects of speed, slopes and drifts from sensor signals. A new audiovisual data labelling technique is proposed. Our system named RoADS, implements wavelet decomposition analysis for signal processing of inertial sensor signals and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for anomaly detection and classification. Using these methods we are able to build a real time multiclass road anomaly detector. We obtained a consistent accuracy of ≈90% on detecting severe anomalies regardless of vehicle type and road location. Local road authorities and communities can benefit from this system to evaluate the state of their road network pavement in real time

Calculation of Investments for the Distribution of GPON Technology in the village of Bishtazhin through database

According to daily reports, the income from internet services is getting lower each year. Landline phone services are running at a loss,  whereas mobile phone services are getting too mainstream and the only bright spot holding together cable operators (ISP)  in positive balance is the income from broadband services (Fast internet, IPTV). Broadband technology is a term that defines multiple methods of information distribution through internet at great speed. Some of the broadband technologies are: optic fiber, coaxial cable, DSL, Wireless, mobile broadband, and satellite connection.  The ultimate goal of any broadband service provider is being able to provide voice, data and the video through a single network, called triple play service. The Internet distribution remains an important issue in Kosovo and particularly in rural zones. Considering the immense development of the technologies and different alternatives that we can face, the goal of this paper is to emphasize the necessity of a forecasting of such investment and to give an experience in this aspect. Because of the fact that in this investment are involved many factors related to population, geographical factors, several technologies and the fact that these factors are in continuously change, the best way is, to store all the data in a database and to use this database for different results. This database helps us to substitute the previous manual calculations with an automatic procedure of calculations. This way of work will improve the work style, having now all the tools to take the right decision about an Internet investment considering all the aspects of this investment