More on Programming for Mobiles

I've posted a number of blogs advocating for developers, educators, and students to become engaged in developing for mobile platforms. These include:

• Student iPhone App Teams
• Are Your Students Programming for the iPhone and Other Mobile Platforms?
• iPhone Programmers Wanted
• Presentation at NSF
• More on Demand for iPhone Developers
• Student iPhone App Teams
• Be Like Stanford

Gordon Snyder has a great over of mobile development platforms that we should all be looking at. Gordon's Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Blog: Some Interesting Wireless Device Development Platforms

The Rutberg newsletter lists four different device platforms:

• iPhone (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ ) Most developers consider the iPhone SDK king right now - Apple currently provides the richest development environment along with marketing and the App store where developers can sell their applications.
• Android (http://code.google.com/android/ ) Googles entry involves the Open Handset Alliance, a group of more than 30 technology and mobile companies that developed Android.
• Ovi (http://ovi.com/services/) Ovi was launched in late summer 2007 by Nokia as a "personal dashboard" for Nokia smartphones.
  
• Blackberry (http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/resources/ ) The company has launched the BlackBerry Developer Zone with resources and information for developers.

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If you currently teach computer programming you should take a close look at each of these development platforms.