MIT students build mobile applications in 13 weeks
December 18th, 2008 by scottjanousek
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MIT student talking about facebook (web)
Rob Toole, posted about a recent article by TechCrunch which discusses MIT students building mobile applications in 13 weeks time, on Google Android, Symbian, and Windows Mobile platforms.
Not sure if Flash, was used for any of the applications featured, but, perhaps … Why no iPhone you ask? Well, probably due to the fact, that all the other mobile platform players listed have a significant presence here in Boston and Cambridge, so it’s not really a big surprise. Plus 2 of the 3 are open platforms, so there you go right there!
In regards to Flash on mobile, there have case studies, such as Parsons, that have utilized the Flash Platform for various mobile curriculums.
If you ask around, the number of schools leveraging Flash to teach Computer Science now, is more than ever (not sure on MIT, but probably there as well). Things have changed a lot since I was in school, but not much … I remember doing Java development before it was 1.0, “back in the day”, when it was the popular (open) platform of choice.
Anyways, it’s good to see the education system realizing the future is mobile, and offering a chance for eager students to get their feet wet with the real world ideas and issues of mobile. Here’s a quite from a professor over there, I think from the article:
“A course like this couldn’t have existed ten years ago… maybe not even a year ago. Courses like this right now are unique, but in two years they’ll be completely ordinary.”