Advanced App Development
- Degree
Exchange
- Start date
February, September
- Location
Deventer
- Duration
5 Months
During the first two years at Saxion, students have worked on skills to develop (web)-apps. Next to languages like Java and C++, students have used techniques like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (NodeJS and Svelte) to explore their creative side in the app and web development domain. If students like this part of Software Engineering, they can choose the Advanced Application Development specialization to learn more about the wide world of web.
Upgrade yourself to a next-level app-developer
During this exchange programme, you will dive deeper into the whole Software Development Lifecycle to build a full-stack application, from coming up with the idea and target group all the way to deploying, testing, and securing your backend and frontend.
Full stack programming languages
You will have the freedom to choose which programming languages you want to learn to achieve your goal. You will pick a backend language and framework, and you will also choose a hybrid app language and framework. Any language is fine, as long as you justify your choice with proper applied research.
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The exchange programme consists of 3 courses and a project. The course T. 55518 “Backend Development” (5 ECTS) will focus on learning new languages and creating a backend that serves data for your hybrid application. On top of this, you will think about more advanced topics like proper security, scalability, maintainability, and deploying your backend to a cloudprovider.
During the course T. 55517 “Design Essentials” (5 ECTS), you will come up with and develop further on your own application idea. You will think of a proper target group, you will think of what this target group needs, design the application that solves the problem, and you will test the feasibility of your design with your target group. All of this is of course based on proper UX and UI research that you will get familiar with.
The third course T. 55520 “Hybrid Development” (5 ECTS) will focus on creating a proper mobile application that uses your backend to solve the target group’s problem. You will do that by first exploring hybrid development solutions like Flutter and React Native. After picking a framework that suits your situation, you will use that framework to develop a hybrid application that displays the data of your developed backend from Backend Development that adheres to the designs you made in Design Essentials.
In the second half of the semester, you will work on a case for a real client in T. 51540 “Project Advanced App Development” (15 ECTS). This is a full-time project in which you will be in constant contact with a real client that has a real problem to solve. You – together with your team members – will go through the whole SDLC process from requirements elicitation to delivering a suitable full-stack solution to the client.