The days of personal electronic gadgets being banned in the classroom are officially over. The meteoric rise of the popularity of the iPhone has put it and its mobile platform in front of a massive number of students since its launch. The ease with which the SDK (Software Development Kit) can be used by anyone that wishes to develop apps is astonishing.
Professor Ken Joy teaches course ECS 198H – Introduction To iPhone Application Development – to undergraduates at the University of California at Davis. His class, that has a maximum of 35 students, was full and had 40 students waiting on a list for no shows within 4 hours of the class being announced.
Professor Joy didn’t have a lot of experience in mobile platforms, but he wanted to teach a “relevant” upto the minute subject that would engage his students.
This proves that this mobile platform technology is here to stay and has captured the imagination of many 100”s of would be developers all over the world.
The next generation of school leavers will be designing their own apps before graduate.