I’ve heard from a number of University groups doing work with Python for S60 (PyS60), but the Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles program though the University of Nairobi and MIT is perhaps the most inspiring. The program’s first course, “Mobile Application Prototyping with Python” is being taught to students with little to no programming experience, in hopes that this education can lead to economic growth for poor communities.
During the development of PyS60, it didn’t take long to see that Universities were going to be a huge early-adopter of mobile Python, but the idea that someone’s first experience programming a computer could be with PyS60 is truly heart warming.
In other PyS60 news, the S60 Multimedia Blog has a post titled, “Manhattan Story Mashup“, with quotes from the behind-the-scenes development of the real, “Manhattan Story Mashup” project, which was developed in Python. I love quotes like, “I have spent only some 2-3 weeks implementing the client in total. Almost like magic.”
Finally, I wanted to mention Teemu’s new PyS60 app, Fupper, a Flickr uploadr for S60 phones.
September 15th, 2006 at 11:27 am
hello Erik,
There”s an interesting talk about making C++ extension for Python in the Forum Nokia
Champion Day Workshop :) Perhaps could you see you at SmartPhones 2006 at London ?
September 15th, 2006 at 4:35 pm
I will be at the Smartphone Show, but I actually didn’t know about the Python talk. I definitely don’t want to miss that!
September 16th, 2006 at 1:30 am
Don’t miss this app http://web.mit.edu/eprom/code/DSS.zip
“Mobile Medicine: Medical Data Collection on Mobiles
We are designing a mobile phone application for medical field workers in Kilifi that can interface with the hospital’s existing mySQL database of patient records. The issue with their existing system is that the field workers are not used to QWERTY keyboards on mobile devices and would prefer a phone keypad for data input. This creates the perfect opportunity for rapid mobile phone application development in Python – it requires advanced features such as managing sockets over GPRS and creating an intuitive user interface.”
In the preliminary agenda on 16 Oct they put it as “Extending and Embedding Python for S60 using C++”
There’s also in Smartphone Show 2006 a training class court from 2h30 at and a part of it is about Python :
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Wednesday 18 October 2006: 14.45 – 17.00
Application development for S60 3rd Edition
* News for developers
* C++ application development Carbide tool)
* Java application development (Carbide tool)
* PYTHON FOR S60
Ivan Chichkov, Chief Technical Consultant, Forum Nokia
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