Ocarina!!!

So every week we will be exposed to different, interesting iphone applications.
last week we were introduced to Ocarina.
I was quite amazed with this music app for the iphone because it was a whole lot different than the others, you will have to blow in the phone! This iPhone application was developed by Smule and it pretty much turns your iPhone into a musical wind instrument plus you can even see and share your music with people all around the world with their Network technology. So if someone in Africa is playing their Ocarina, you will see little notes coming up from that area on the globe. VERY COOL! This application combines tilting and touching and blowing and all together this will create the sounds. It is just like playing a flute but a digital version, you place your hands on the holes on the screen. I look forward to learning about cool, different apps every week!

First Class :)

Our first class started off with an interesting group activity, and at the end we did learn that in the world of the internet, comes many technologies,development tools, uses and social/business issues. Our group provided one example of internet technology which was VoIP. Voice over Internet Protocol is simply the transmission of voice traffic over IP-based networks. Due to the low cost of this technology compared to traditional telephone networks, it is in high demand of consumers. In fact, If you have a fast Internet connection (DSL or cable) you can make PC-to-PC phone calls anywhere in the world for free! If you would like to make a PC-to-phone connection, however, there's usually a charge for this but definitely much cheaper than your regular phone service. To better understand how this works, here is a VoIP Diagram:

We also learned a bit about the Infrastructure of the Internet and specifically about the OSI and TCP/IP Models. Here is a link to the OSI Model's different layers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:OSIstack

After our first class , I did more research about the "Internet" itself and wanted to share some interesting information : "The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United States funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks."

Welcome to My Blog!

Hello,

I have created this blog for the Intorduction to JAVA course, taught by Dr. Piercy.
This blog would be a great source to not only keep track with important take aways from each session, but also to learn from other classmates by subscribing to their blogs. I look forward to learning many new things from this course!