At the University of California Davis a professor is teaching a Iphone application development class. The professor wanted to teach a class that was relevant and could also keep the interest of students. There have been several universities that offered software development classes, but the first for U of C Davis. The only prerequisite for the class is students were to have their own iphone, ipod (touch), or Mac that can run SDK( Software Development Kit).
The break down of the class consisted of the first 5 weeks learning SDK and some C language. The following 5 remaining weeks students were to split into teams of 2 and worked on their applications. The end of the semester brought some cool new apps, like how to tune a piano and maps of the university campus.
Professor Drake even talked about how big the application programing for cell phones are right now. With application being and open source we've only scratched the surface of whats yet to come with phone applications.
Now that would be a class that I would be interested in. Maybe the COB should look into this.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that you blogged on this topic. My son just purchased a book from Borders regarding i phone application development. He too, told me that he needed a Mac computer to be able to proceed further instead of just reading. Everything I seem to read lately pertains to all the new apps that are now available on phones.
ReplyDeleteThat's soooo cool. Last semester, one of my Profs in Karlsruhe had the idea to buy 30 IPhones for his e-business class. He wanted students to program software for the IPhone. He has the opinion that the focus for software development and business platforms as to expand to the mobile devices (like the IPhone, Android and so on).
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the student council declined the inquiry in favor for other important projects.