December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
8h 5m
English
book
Mobile Python: Rapid Prototyping of Applications on the Mobile Platform
by Jürgen Scheible, Ville Tuulos
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Glossary
- Application
A program including a user interface that allows rich interaction with the user
- Carrier
A mobile network operator
- Cell phone
A mobile phone
- Console
User interface of the Python for S60 script shell – either on the phone or on the PC over Bluetooth
- Event
An external event, such as the user pressing a key or an SMS message arriving, that causes the program to react, typically by way of a callback function
- Interpreter
A computer program that executes Python code; you have to install the Python for S60 interpreter on a phone to run Python programs
- Library
Equivalent to a module or a collection of modules
- MMS
Multimedia message service; an extension to SMS that allows sending of images and sounds or other rich types of data
- Mobile network operator
A company that provides services for mobile phone subscribers
- Mobile phone
A personal handheld communication device; modern mobile phones, especially smartphones, provide many functionalities, such as web browser, email, camera and music player, in addition to normal telephone functions
- Module
A file that contains a collection of related functions and data grouped together; a program may import a module (unlike an object) only once and cannot handle several instances of the same module
- Object
A basic building block of programs that contains both data (variables) and functions that are used to modify the data; practically everything in Python is an object, including strings, lists and functions
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