android development course in NJIT

Android in school is one great concept that should gain much more momentum. We would all love to see application development in schools.

Now New Jersey Institute of Technology has is offering public courses for anyone for wanting to learn how to develop for android. This thing will start on January 18th 2011, on 1050$. Well this might not be much considering the quality of education and considering that what you learn is to develop for android.

Register by Jan. 17, 2010 athttp://cpe-njit.mobi/.

Consider this course an excellent way to get a start on developing applications for a tablet operating system," said instructor Tim Kellers.

This is an online course offering Android applications for software simulators and hardware devices.
NJIT will award three continuing education units (CEUs) upon the successful completion of the course. Study topics will include getting started, Android controls using XML, table layout in Android, interface themes, creating background services and using the WebKit. More topics include user interfaces, programming services and investigating multi-threading. Each student will design their own final project application, a culmination of performed tasks and assignments included in each module.

Well considering the fact that Android will be growing no matter what, learning how to develop applications for android seems to be a good option for studies.