FHU Students Create iPhone App
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When Freed-Hardeman University students start school in a couple of weeks, they’ll be able to take advantage of a new, free iPhone app. Seven students and two staffers launched the school’s first iPhone app a week-and-a-half ago. It has almost everything you need to know about FHU: news, what’s happening on campus, an interactive map and even a faculty phone and e-mail directory. “This application is going to do a lot of good for the school,” said Ethan Kershaw, a senior at FHU and one of the app’s creators. They’ve already had 250 downloads as of last week, and they say that’s just a start. “Once our students get back on campus I expect another surge of downloads and awareness that the application is there,” FHU webmaster Michael Plyler said. Most of the students were from Dr. Kenan Casey’s advanced computer science class. They spent about five months creating the app, averaging about six to 10 hours a week. Their proud professor says all their hard work was worth it. “We thought this would be a really great way to create something for the university that helps the university,” Casey said, “but also give our students an experience that they wouldn’t otherwise have of making a piece of software that is large, complex, but actually is used.” The app’s creators said students will get to design a similar app for the iPad for Dr. Casey’s class next spring.
