Terrier Volume 75, Number 1 - Spring 2011 | Page 12

Fa c u lt y P r o f i l e

Esther Klein—Looking for APProval
In her third year as Information Technology professor at St. Francis College, Esther Klein has crossed the
digital divide from a lifelong PC user to being on the cutting edge of Apple technology. She now teaches
students to program applications for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
test it on their own devices.
“This is a skill that is very much
“It’s interesting to see that
in demand,” said Professor Klein
even though all three products
who earned her doctorate in
are using the same programming
Computer Science. “To my
software, the applications can act
knowledge, we are the only college
very differently,” said Professor
in Brooklyn with a course that
Klein. “So while it would be great
teaches students to program apps.”
to program one app for the iPad,
Because students come to the
iPhone and iPod touch, it’s not a
class with different levels of
one size fits all process.”
programming experience, Dr.
The idea came from associate
Klein starts the course with a very
dean Dr. Allen Burdowski, who
basic introduction to Objective-C,
the programming language Apple
recognized that the iPad could be
uses for its apps.
integrated into the curriculum.
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