I’m going to be teaching a college class in the coming weeks. Due to the cost of the educational license we’ll have to work with the trial version.
My frustration is that the trial version doesn’t allow testing with the retinal iPhone. This was apparently removed, I seem to remember it being available in an older version.
Without the retinal option it’s very difficult to explain and demonstrate image scaling for different devices.
We also can’t demonstrate Kindle Fire and some of the other devices.
Of course we could buy 1 copy of Corona for the instructor computer. This doesn’t allow for students to try these ideas for themselves, which is where they will learn the concepts.
Ideally we’d like to have 50 copies of Corona. Each of our classrooms has 20 computers and we need some copies for the lab. But this runs 20K ouch! Beyond “ouch” really, the price is impossible for our budget, especially when you consider we would have to pay this each year for the subscription.
Not to mention we’d be paying for a lot more Corona then we’d be using. Every single student isn’t a developer. I very much doubt that we would have 50 students submitting and selling apps to the iTunes and Android market places.
As an educator I feel Corona is a great tool to teach mobile app development. I wish there were a truly educational version of product. I picture a version that doesn’t allow sales to the app stores but does allow full use of the features and simulators. It would also be good if it allowed testing on a number of personal devices.
If students want to publish their apps they can buy their own educational copy. For the classroom, as a teacher, to get the most out the subject I need to be able to show the full range of features and be able to take a project from the simulator onto a real device. To learn the subjects students need to see a demonstration then recreate the example for themselves. [import]uid: 98652 topic_id: 19976 reply_id: 319976[/import]