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168 points okeumeni | 1 comments | 16 Oct 10 16:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source
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Mongoose ◴[16 Oct 10 17:54 UTC] No.1798412[source]▶
One thing I'd like to see is Android have more of a presence in universities. It'd give CS students useful exposure to mobile development and allow them to put all of the Java that gets crammed down their throats to good use.
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1. ephermata ◴[16 Oct 10 19:31 UTC] No.1798672[source]▶
Not quite what you are getting at, but a lot of university-led CS research uses Android. Android hits a sweet spot where it's easy to hack, but at the same time changes you make are relevant to millions of shipping devices. Security research in particular has a lot of fun with Android, because you can analyse the existing platform, then turn around and build your idea, then turn around and run it on real hardware without too much pain.

That does not, of course, necessarily filter into intro CS classes. I have seen a few "mobile development" classes in universities, but they seem to be split between iPhone and Android.