MIT is now offering a class that is wrapped around the new Google Android platform, which is in development by the Open Handset Alliance, and its major members like Google, Sprint, and T-Mobile. Open source and flexible, this new platform is getting a workout at the MIT class. Currently only allowing a few students of the more than 505 that wished to join, the class provides hands on experience with Google Android and what it can do, and what it needs to improve on. Seeing how Google Android really is the only Open Source platform for mobile phones it really is not hard to see why people would want to experience what it can do – most other platforms and operating systems are under lock and key, with no outside input. It is this very input that may make Google Android the most dominant when it is ready to go from spreading its wings, to soaring above the rest.


May 6th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
For those also in Boston but not attending MIT, Boston University is also offering a summer course in Open Source development creating mobile applications using Android. http://csmet.bu.edu/Programs/syllabi/893/893_opensource_syllabus.htm
I should know, I’m teaching it.
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