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MIT students build mobile applications in 13 weeks

MIT professor Hal Abelson started the final presentation for the school’s Building Mobile Applications class by saying:

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.

What’s extraordinary is that on top of a full college course-load at one of the most challenging schools in the country, these groups of students built fully working mobile applications for Windows Mobile, Android, and Symbian devices while mentors from the likes of Google, Nokia, Bank of America, and Microsoft oversaw their progress.

Continue reading here: Crunchgear.

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