A few minutes ago, the last upload was finally finished and now symbianresources.com does not only feature loads of Symbian OS-related projects and tutorials, but also the course materials of the introductory Java ME course from the Mobile Computing-department of the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg, Austria - all available for free.

The slides and challenges are targeted at students with basic knowledge of Java and introduce the specific concepts of the Java Platform, Micro Edition. With almost 400 slides/pages, they cover quite much, but of course do not go too much into specific details that wouldn't be relevant for teaching.

Some examples of the exercises, where solutions are provided with full source code:

• A mobile 3D car racing game framework, created with JSR 184 (m3g). Includes: the first basic steps in creating your own 3D scene with Blender, an open source 3D package written in Python, and how to display this 3D scene on a mobile phone.
• A client for a multiplayer “Asteroids”-like game (server components and game protocol were developed by my colleague Stephan Drab).
• Your own small game, complete with an enemy, bullets, highscores and everything you want from a game – well, almost everything, at least. Based on the boss fights of Schlabo 1, a text mode game that I wrote in QuickBasic at school many years ago.
  

If you’re interested, take a look at the new Java ME section at symbianresources.com.

I’ve been rather silent on the blogs lately - but now that the semester is coming to an end, you can expect more content to be released soon, including:

1. ShakerRacer source code and hardware setup instructions
2. Updated and improved Symbian OS course materials (@ symbianresources.com)
3. And of course, some fascinating new student projects... I'm looking forward to the results myself :)