MIT offering Android software development class
29 January 2008 - 13:46From February 8th, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be running a class in Android software development, as part of a new program centred on phone-based programming. Led by Professor Hal Abelson, the course comes under the remit of the Computer Science program, and will feature guest instructors including Google’s Rich Miner, ConnectedBit’s Dave Mitchell and Eric Carlson, and MIT’s Rajeev Surati and Andrew Yu. A broad range of topics will apparently be covered, including Location Based Services which Google has already tipped as the next phase in cellphone use and mobile advertising.
“It’s definitely something that captures students’ interest. Given the fact that they actually have the devices, they want to do something with it” Andrew Yu, mobile devices platform coordinator, MIT
Using the Google-supplied Android SDK, the class of 25 will be split into teams of 3 or 4 who will then collaborate on a software project to be presented in May. It is uncertain whether MIT will encourage or even permit participants on the course to submit their projects to Google as part of the company’s Android Developer Challenge.
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4 Comments | Tags: Android, Mobile content, software
29 Jan 2008 - 19:56
Cool man, it is a shame though that they wont let students to submit projects to the Android Challenge, as they will work hard as any other developer.
Another thing, this program should come to London, it would be a success here.
30 Jan 2008 - 2:02
I’m not sure of where they stand on the Challenge - I can’t imagine them being against the idea of students entering, you’d think that would only encourage “proper” software rather than just something that will get good marks.
We’ll probably see a lot more of these type of courses as computer science departments realise the market is there.
31 Jan 2008 - 2:27
It’d be even better if/when MIT releases the course content under its OpenCourseWare, which is probably what Google wants anyway. I suspect the course lectures and presentations will be among the most watched on Google Video or on YouTube.
27 Apr 2008 - 19:12
A course on FOSS development using Android is also being offered at BU this summer.
http://csmet.bu.edu/Programs/syllabi/893/893_opensource_syllabus.htm
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